Re: Relocatable locale

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2004 14:41 schrieb Bruce Momjian:
> > > > As for how to do it - on Windows you *can* get the path of the DLL that
> > > > is executing your code, using GetModuleFileName(). Hardly
> > > > cross-platform, but can be done.
> > >
> > > That sounds pretty reasonable to me.
> >
> > True, and we already have our own find_my_exec() which works for Unix too.
>
> What does that have to do with this case? We're trying to find the library
> here.

Oh, I see that GetModuleFileName() finds the location of your library,
not of the binary. Nice. So, for Win32, we use that function call to
find the locale directory?

We do have a comment in port/exec.c:

if (GetModuleFileName(NULL, retpath, MAXPGPATH) == 0)

and I thought that did only binaries, not the library that uses them. I
assume if the library is a DLL, it returns the DLL location, and if it
is in the binary, it returns the binary location.

I will make a Win32-specific patch. Do we want an evironment variable
for Unix? Seems folks do. I will work on that too.

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