#Geany portable linux install#
#Geany portable linux code#

That is not allowing for there to be a way of convenient automated installation to user's home directory.

#Geany portable linux install#

Sure, I can do this, just as I can install with a prefix to my home, but that is not convenient.

Even desktop launcher can be added to ~/.local/usr/share/applications/ instead of /usr/share/applications, and so on, HOWEVER, I had to manually ln -s my home based installation back to /usr/share/geany. Should geany be a bit more flexible, that'd be not a problem at all. So me, I installed it locally under my home.

Installing geany's files into /usr or anywhere outside of ~/ would be considered very expensive. Now, on the phone, the most of the filesystem except ~/, is read-only. I am running Geany on my phone (Ubuntu Touch), you can see here: neither it does on other Linux machines by default I want to tell you a bit specific sitation. You still have to install the resulting build, but you'll be able to move the tree around (and can very well install wherever you want, either with -prefix or DESTDIR).īinary relocation isn't very well tested though, so feel free to report issues with it.ĭear all, this original post really is about a not so well thought design of geany. Well, fortunately for you, we do already have support for this, you just have to enable it with -enable-binreloc option on. With that there should be only dealing with libgeany.so.0 left to make a portable version (launched through a bash script setting relative path).Īh, relocatable executable on Linux. Basically, if you want to do that you're doing something wrong. It's mostly part of Geany itself, not a runtime choice. That wouldn't make much sense, the location of Geany's data files are not something a user is supposed to want to change depending on the runs.

#Geany portable linux code#

To run the in-build-directory binary, use libtool (as most of the code is now in libgeany): libtool -mode=execute src/geany.Ĭould the data folder be treated like the config folder, a default value you can override on the command line? You need data files to be installed, yes, but you don't need the actual executable to be. Because I'd have to re-install it after each change to the code.Īctually, you don't.