GNU bug report logs - #12123
relocatable installation

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Message #8 received at 12123 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 12123 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12123:
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:32:02 -0400

chad wrote:

> Web searching suggests approaches for several specific platforms
> (GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, macosx, and Windows) that might be
> useful:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1023306/finding-current-executables-path-without-proc-self-exe

I don't think this is an issue. We've already got invocation-directory,
which is probably good enough in 99.9+% of cases. Unless people do
obscure things to hide the executable, in which case they just don't get
to use a relocatable Emacs.

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