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> From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
> Cc: godek.maciek@gmail.com,  guile-user@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 15:56:53 -0400
> 
> Remember that Guile is a library, not just an executable.  So argv[0]
> could point to any arbitrary executable that's linked with libguile.

We can provide an API for passing to the library the root of its
installation.

> Having said that, we should probably come up with a solution for
> relocatable builds on MacOS X as well.

Indeed.