From: GGarramuno@... (GGarramuno)
Date: 2004-03-20T07:34:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Can $LOAD_PATH be relative?

ptkwt@aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) wrote in message news:<c3fhqv028i3@enews2.newsguy.com>...
> 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

In a shell window, set the environment variable RUBYLIB with the list
of paths you want to use.