Re: [PATCH] Set up argv0_path correctly, even when argv[0] is just the basename
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Aug 3, 2008, 20:43 UTC
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Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> writes:
> On UNIX, not only that argv[0] can contain the program without path -- it can > contain anything the user thinks of.... Maybe since > it's only needed for resolving a relative exec dir, relative exec dir could > be supported only on systems that have such method (which is most of them).
The "relocatable install" itself is not usually a common concept in the UNIX world, and I do not think this matters anyway.