Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Dienstag, 22. Juli 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote: >> > 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! > >> 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? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
