diff -r 301c3edbdaa1 -r 787612182dd0 cross-plat-dev-utils/places.pm
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/cross-plat-dev-utils/places.pm	Thu May 13 08:38:18 2010 +0100
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+# Copyright (c) 2010 Symbian Foundation Ltd
+# This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+# under the terms of the License "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+# which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+# at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+#
+# Initial Contributors:
+# Mike Kinghan, mikek@symbian.org, for Symbian Foundation Ltd - initial contribution.
+
+# Routines to get/set some essential paths.
+
+use strict;
+use Cwd;
+use Cwd 'abs_path';
+use File::Spec;
+
+# get the package directory
+sub get_pkg_dir()
+{
+	return abs_path("..");	
+}
+
+# get the epoc32 directory without insisting it exists
+sub get_epoc32_path()
+{
+	my $epocroot = get_epocroot();
+	my $epoc32 = File::Spec->catfile($epocroot,"epoc32");
+	return $epoc32;
+}
+
+# get the epoc32 directory, insisting it exists
+sub get_epoc32_dir()
+{
+	my $epoc32 = get_epoc32_path();
+	die "*** Error: directory \"$epoc32\" does not exist ***",
+		unless ( -d "$epoc32");	
+	return $epoc32;
+}
+
+# Get the EPOCROOT directory, using the environment setting if it exists,
+# otherwise assuming the parent of the package dir.
+sub get_epocroot()
+{
+	my $epocroot = $ENV{'EPOCROOT'};
+    unless ($epocroot) {
+		$epocroot = abs_path(File::Spec->catfile("..",".."));
+		if (-d "$epocroot") {
+        	print ">>> EPOCROOT not defined. Assuming \"$epocroot\"\n";
+		} else {
+			die "*** Error: EPOCROOT not defined and guess \"$epocroot\" " .
+				"does not exist ***";
+		}
+    	$ENV{'EPOCROOT'}=$epocroot;
+		print ">>> EPOCROOT=\"$epocroot\"\n";
+    }
+	if (! -d "$epocroot") {
+		die "*** Error: directory \"$epocroot\" does not exist ***";
+	}
+	else {
+		my $epoc32 = File::Spec->catfile($epocroot,"epoc32");
+		unless ( -d "$epoc32") {
+			print "!!! Warning: No epoc32 die under EPOCROOT !!!\n";
+		}
+	}
+	return $epocroot;
+}
+
+sub get_sbs_home()
+{
+	my $sbs_home = $ENV{'SBS_HOME'};
+	unless($sbs_home) {
+		$sbs_home = File::Spec->catfile(get_pkg_dir(),"sbsv2","raptor");
+		if ( -d "$sbs_home") {
+        	print ">>> SBS_HOME not defined. Assuming \"$sbs_home\"\n";
+		} else {
+			die "*** Error: SBS_HOME not defined and guess \"$sbs_home\" " .
+				"does not exist ***";
+		}
+		$ENV{'SBS_HOME'} = $sbs_home;
+	}
+	unless ( -d "$sbs_home") {
+		die "*** Error: directory \"$sbs_home\" does not exist ***";
+	}
+	return $sbs_home;
+}
+
+1;
+