Subject: Re: [PATCH] Extend runtime prefix computation

From: Michael Weiser <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:45:32 +0100

Hello Erik,

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:20:52AM +0100, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:

> > +#if defined(__linux__)
> > +               struct stat st;
> > +               if (!stat("/proc/self/exe", &st)) {
> > +                       abs_argv0 = xstrdup(real_path("/proc/self/exe"));
> > +               }
> > +#elif defined(__APPLE__)
> > +               /* Mac OS X has realpath, which incidentally allocates its own
> > +                * memory, which in turn is why we do all the xstrdup's in the
> > +                * other cases. */
> > +               abs_argv0 = realpath(argv0, NULL);
> > +#endif
> ...perhaps a "GetModuleFileName(NULL, ...)" for Windows is in place here?

Agreed. However, I do not use git on Windows and don't have a Windows
devel toolchain in place. So I guess this should be added in a separate
patch by someone actually in need of it and in a position to develop and
test it?

Thanks,
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