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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Fixed directory locations in installs
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Msg-id 13347.1083596142@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Fixed directory locations in installs  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Not sure how we can do this for Unix except perhaps probe PATH.

Huh?  We have always determined the full path of the executable ---
see FindExec().

I guess what you are saying is we should have a configure-time option to
address configured directories via relative paths from the executable's
directory, rather than absolute paths?  Seems reasonable ...
        regards, tom lane

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