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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 12123@debbugs.gnu.org, yandros@MIT.EDU, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: bug#12123:
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 14:32:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2xfvz2i430.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r4incb9b.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 07 Apr 2013 05:42:08 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> > Then perhaps we could just borrow the ideas from progreloc.c.
>> 
>> That sounds like more work than using the Gnulib module,
>> I expect.
>
> Not necessarily.  progreloc.c is relatively short, and is really just
> a series of platform-dependent methods to find the absolute file name
> of the running program.  The MS-Windows method used there is already
> being used in Emacs, and most of the infrastructure for relocating a
> directory is already in place.

I must be missing something, because AFAICS, invocation-directory has
already solved this problem. What cases are not already handled that are
relevant and need extra code adding from progreloc.c?





  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-07 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <probmtut73.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
2013-04-05 17:27 ` bug#12123: chad
2013-04-05 17:32   ` bug#12123: Glenn Morris
2013-04-05 17:48   ` bug#12123: Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-06  6:47     ` bug#12123: Paul Eggert
2013-04-06  8:22       ` bug#12123: Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-06 20:35         ` bug#12123: Paul Eggert
2013-04-07  2:42           ` bug#12123: Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-07 18:32             ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2013-04-07 19:06               ` bug#12123: Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-07 19:42                 ` bug#12123: Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-08  2:00                   ` bug#12123: Glenn Morris
2013-04-08  2:44                     ` bug#12123: Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-08  2:02                 ` bug#12123: Glenn Morris

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