NSIS Uninstaller Working Directory

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I am using NSIS to create my installers/uninstallers, and the uninstaller seems to have a weird behavior.

I don't put the installer in $INSTDIR, it is located at $INSTDIR/subdir/uninstall.exe (it's a addon installer for a host application).

When I run the installer then, it thinks the application installation root is $INSTDIR/subdir instead of $INSTDIR. It then can't find all the files in subdir/* as it's already in subdir.

If I move the executable, it seems to just accept the current directory as where the application installation root is. I can move it to $INSTDIR and all is well.

Thanks.

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