Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> skribis: >> From: Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> >> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org>, "guile-user\@gnu.org" <guile-user@gnu.org> >> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:13:19 -0400 >> >> Of course, ideally we would allow the entire Guile install to be freely >> relocatable, as Windows users have come to expect. This would require >> some help from a Windows developer. > > Why should this feature be limited to Windows builds of Guile? Why > not make it work for Posix platforms as well? Some other projects > already do, they use argv[0] and PATH search to find the place where > the executable is installed, and record relative file names from > there.
This is not completely reliable when using argv[0] because argv[0] can be anything, though this can be work around on Linux-based systems with /proc/self/exe as done in <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/patches/guile-relocatable.patch>. Here’s a proposal: add a --enable-relocatable configure option, have it default to yes on MinGW and Cygwin (assuming there’s a method that works reliably on these), and default to no elsewhere; alternately, have it default to no everywhere. WDYT? Thanks, Ludo’.
