From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2004-03-20T06:59:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Can $LOAD_PATH be relative?

Patrick Bennett <patrick.bennett@inin.com> writes:

> Phil Tomson wrote:
> 
> >True, I could do those things, but I'm wondering how they managed to make 
> >$LOAD_PATH relative on Windows?
> >  
> >
> Because Ruby was coded to work that way.  Why it wasn't made to do it 
> under *nix, I have no idea.

Under Unix you specify the path at compile time. The default is
/usr/local/{bin,lib} but you can change that with arguments to configure.

Jim
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