From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2004-03-18T10:35:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Installer packages for MacOSX

Quoteing ptkwt@aracnet.com, on Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:39:34AM +0900:
> >latest version/more stable. They install into /usr/local. I may be 
> >mistaken, but I think that the library's path is compiled in? Moving 
> >them doesn't work for me, anyway.
> 
> No, it should be relative to where you're running the ruby binary from.  

Not on a un*x system. The paths will be hard-coded in, and it won't
matter how they are linked.

I don't believe it is possible for an executable to reliably determine
where the os loaded it's image from on a un*x system.  And if you rm a
program after loading it, it won't have a location.

Sam