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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Set up argv0_path correctly, even when argv[0] is just
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Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:43:01 -0700
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Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> writes:

> On UNIX, not only that argv[0] can contain the program without path -- it can
> contain anything the user thinks of.... Maybe since
> it's only needed for resolving a relative exec dir, relative exec dir could
> be supported only on systems that have such method (which is most of them).

The "relocatable install" itself is not usually a common concept in the
UNIX world, and I do not think this matters anyway.