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authorKristian Evers <kristianevers@gmail.com>2019-01-09 23:55:39 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2019-01-09 23:55:39 +0100
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Merge pull request #1218 from rouault/search_path
Add API in proj.h to set a file finder callback and search paths; support multiple directories in PROJ_LIB
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@@ -31,8 +31,12 @@ done by setting the variable with no content::
.. envvar:: PROJ_LIB
The location of PROJ :doc:`resource files<../resource_files>`.
- It is only possible to specify a single library in :envvar:`PROJ_LIB`; e.g. it
- does not behave like PATH. PROJ is hardcoded to look for resource files
+
+ Starting with PROJ 6, multiple directories can be specified. On Unix, they
+ should be separated by the colon (:) character. on Windows, by the semi-colon (;)
+ character.
+
+ PROJ is hardcoded to look for resource files
in other locations as well, amongst those are the users home directory,
``/usr/share/proj`` and the current folder.