From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: guile-2.0 on mingw: the sequel Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:34:39 +0300 Message-ID: <83d2p4ifow.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83vc2wj4hz.fsf@gnu.org> <877gfccueo.fsf@tines.lan> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1377272101 16981 80.91.229.3 (23 Aug 2013 15:35:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:35:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 23 17:35:02 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VCtO3-00026J-8E for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:34:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37469 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VCtO2-00049J-T8 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:34:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50008) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VCtNq-000494-8k for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:34:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VCtNk-00053c-Vr for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:34:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:58338) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VCtNk-00053E-Nn for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:34:36 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MRZ00H00PVH7W00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:34:35 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MRZ00HCVPXM5P40@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:34:35 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <877gfccueo.fsf@tines.lan> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:10677 Archived-At: > From: Mark H Weaver > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , "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.