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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guile-2.0 on mingw: the sequel
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:34:39 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d2p4ifow.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877gfccueo.fsf@tines.lan>

> From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@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.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-23 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-22 20:25 guile-2.0 on mingw: the sequel Panicz Maciej Godek
2013-08-23  6:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-23  9:29   ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2013-08-23 10:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-23 20:14       ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2013-08-24  6:31         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-24  8:05           ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2013-08-25 15:26             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-25 16:59               ` Mark H Weaver
2013-08-25 17:47                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-25 19:03                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-25 19:34                   ` Mark H Weaver
2013-08-27 21:51                   ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2013-08-26 13:28                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-23 15:13     ` Mark H Weaver
2013-08-23 15:34       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-08-25 18:59         ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-25 21:19           ` Mark H Weaver
2013-08-26  2:35           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-25 19:50         ` Mark H Weaver
2013-08-25 19:56           ` Mark H Weaver
2013-08-25 20:33             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-25 20:40               ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-25 21:42               ` Mark H Weaver
2013-08-25 23:24                 ` dsmich
2013-08-26  2:44                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-26  5:56                     ` Mark H Weaver
2013-08-26  6:26                       ` Mark H Weaver
2013-08-26 13:10                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-26  2:40                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-25 20:32           ` Eli Zaretskii

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