Angus Leeming wrote: > To be specific, I don't see why > 1. ExpandPath is needed at all. > 2. What the thing inside the if block is meant to be achieving. > 3. What the idea behind removing "/.libs/" is all about. Surely, the LyX > executable is to be found at build_dir/src/lyx if it's being run in-place?
I believe that some combination of automake / autoconf / Makefile.am / phase of the moon puts not only libraries, but also executables in .libs. It is a long time ago that I saw something like that, so I think it is safe to remove this special case. > Surely, argv[0] is by definition either an absolute path or is relative to > CWD. The shell expands everything else. No? I am not sure. Maybe there are some weird shells or OSes that behave differently? Then points 1. and 2. make sense. Or the author of it did simply not know that he does not need to expand the path manually. Georg
