[OS X] new variable for app bundle path

[Seiji Zenitani]

Hi,

Is it possible to provide a new variable for Carbon port, which  
stands for the application bundle path?  The application bundle path  
is a path for the double-clickable application icon (e.g. / 
Applications/Emacs.app), while the other emacs directories such as  
data-dir depend on the configuration option: /usr/local/share/share/ 
emacs/22.1/etc/ (default) or ${app_path}/Contents/Resources/etc/ (-- 
self-contained).  Usually a platform-only variable may not be  
favorable, but I believe the application bundle path is fundamental  
enough.  A patch to the EMACS_22_BASE branch is attached.  It works  
fine for me since June.  Similar variable will be easily introduced  
to the future Cocoa port, too.

Seiji Zenitani
address@hidden


--- src/mac.c.orig  2007-04-20 09:26:45.000000000 -0400
+++ src/mac.c       2007-06-09 18:54:42.000000000 -0400
@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@
 static OSErr fsspec_to_posix_pathname P_ ((const FSSpec *, char *,  
int));
 #endif

+Lisp_Object Vmac_app_path;
+
 /* When converting from Mac to Unix pathnames, /'s in folder names are
    converted to :'s.  This function, used in copying folder names,
    performs a strncat and converts all character a to b in the copy of
@@ -5402,6 +5406,10 @@
       if (stat (p, &st) == 0 && (st.st_mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR)
        setenv ("INFOPATH", p, 1);
     }
+
+  strcpy (p, app_bundle_pathname);
+  Vmac_app_path = build_string(p);
+
 }
 #endif /* MAC_OSX */

@@ -5479,6 +5495,10 @@
 This is not a POSIX locale ID, but an ICU locale ID.  So encoding
 information is not included.  */);
   Vmac_system_locale = mac_get_system_locale ();
+
+  DEFVAR_LISP ("mac-app-path", &Vmac_app_path,
+    doc: /* Path to the Emacs application bundle.  */);
+
 }

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