Re: registry vs. environment (was re:binary

> The remaining issue I see which is somewhat related to this
> is: how do we allow an installation path to be set at install time
> rather than at configure time (in the usual Windows way)? And how do we do

> that and at the same time provide for multiple installations on the same
machine?

Good question. The problem as I see it is being able to resolve things like
PKGLIBDIR/$libdir (which, at configure time, gets set to something like
/usr/local/pgsql/lib).

If we restrict the Win32 port to prevent the use of configure time --libdir,
--bindir etc (ie. we force the PostgreSQL lib, bin, share, include
directories to fall under the same root directory, as is the default [ie.
/usr/local/pgsql]), then one obvious solution would be to resolve, say
$libdir, under Win32 by taking the basename of progname and appending
../lib. Doesn't seem like a totally unreasonable approach for this platform.

Comments?
Claudio

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