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chg: make is possible to call by default an hg binary located next to chg

When a single version of hg is in use and it's in the PATH, using chg
is just a matter of calling chg.

But when there are multiple installations of hg+chg around, and hg is
referred to with an absolute path, using chg is more annoying because
it requires both changing the invocation to hg to use chg, but also
setting CHGHG.

Currently, we set HGPATH when we build chg to remove the need to set
CHGHG in the previous paragraph. But that means chg now hardcodes its
installation path, which makes the installation not relocatable. Hence
this proposal to make chg find ./hg relative to itself (as opposed to
CHGHG=./hg which find hg relative to cwd).

This only works on linux as written, but since it's opt-in, it sounds
fine.

Tested by hand, as I'm not sure how else to test this.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D9006

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.SH NAME
chg \- a fast client for Mercurial command server
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B chg
.IR command " [" options "] [" arguments "]..."
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B chg
command is the wrapper for
.B hg
command.
It uses the Mercurial command server to reduce start-up overhead.
.SH OPTIONS
This program accepts the same command line syntax as the
.B hg
command. Additionally it accepts the following options.
.TP
.B \-\-kill\-chg\-daemon
Terminate the background command servers.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR hg (1),
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Yuya Nishihara <[e-mail]>.