Re: dynamic argv0 relocation

[Ken Raeburn]

On Jun 10, 2005, at 09:05, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> It would be nice if guile/libguile would have/support dynamic
> relocation based on the location of the executable (be it guile or
> lilypond).

Would configuring Guile with this option break executables linked 
against libguile and installed with different prefixes?  Or is there 
something the application can do (aside from using the same prefix) to 
find the Guile code?

> Below is an attempt that works, but I'm not sure about the api nor the
> implementation.  What do you think?

I haven't reviewed it closely, but at first glance, you do seem to be 
assuming that whoever runs configure doesn't use the --bindir (etc) 
arguments, so that you know how to construct $bindir (etc) from a 
single prefix string.  That's all well and fine, and probably correct 
99% of the time, but it might be good to add a check in the configure 
script, and error out if one of the directory variables is set to 
something other than what's expected.

Ken