Re: Fixed directory locations in installs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Fixed directory locations in installs
Date
Msg-id 200405031603.i43G3l009430@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Fixed directory locations in installs  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Fixed directory locations in installs  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> 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().


Oh, OK.  I forgot that.

> 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 ...

Yep.  In fact, why would we not use that by default?

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