From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-03-20T04:54:32+09:00
Subject: Can $LOAD_PATH be relative?


Question based on an assertion made in another thread...

I was under the impression that $LOAD_PATH is relative to the current 
location of the ruby executable.  On Windows this certainly seems to be 
the case.  I can move ruby.exe and see that $LOAD_PATH changes.

However, on Linux this doesn't seem to be the case, no matter where I put 
the ruby binary, $LOAD_PATH points to /usr/local/lib/ruby/...

Is there anyway to make $LOAD_PATH relative on Linux (and I suspect also 
on Windows if you use MingW to compile) just as it is on the Windows 
mswin32 build?

....I'm hoping this is just a configure command-line switch since I need to 
put the Ruby binary and some libs on a CDROM and have it execute from 
there.

Phil