Re: [PATCH 0/9] Make gitexecdir relative to $(bindir) on Windows

On Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

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On Dienstag, 22. Juli 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote:

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The problem was that argv[0] does not have a path in certain cases.

Note that the same holds true for Linux when calling a program that is
in the PATH:

Oh, boy!

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I imagine that the proper solution would be to rip out lookup_prog() and
use it for non-Windows Git, too.  Unless you want to limit the
usefulness of your patch series to Windows, that is.

This certainly goes beyond what I am prepared to do. It is not my itch.
The series is already much longer than I wanted, when there is a much
simpler solution that solves *my* problem: to set bindir = $(gitexecdir).

If you are living in the Windows world, perhaps you could record the
installation location in resource somewhere from the installer and look it
up at runtime?  Or is it considered a bad practice?

Well, looking at value of _pgmptr *is* "look it up at runtime"; no resources 
or help from the installer are needed.

My rant here is more about that I created a *long* patch series only to find 
out that it does not have enough genericity to solve the same problem 
(relocatability) on platforms other than Windows - and I don't want to make 
it even longer. Windows is special enough that *I* could live with a much 
simpler solution even though it is a bit retro.

-- Hannes