From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:43:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Set up argv0_path correctly, even when argv[0] is just the basename
Message-ID: <7v3allvnhm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080803202513.GC3482@efreet.light.src>

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.