Re: Fixed directory locations in installs

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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