From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-03-21T03:39:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Can $LOAD_PATH be relative?

In article <wsq1xnofr5p.fsf@io.com>, Jim Menard  <jimm@io.com> wrote:
>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.

Is there an option to configure to make it relative like is is on Windows 
or did they do it with '#if defined' pre-processor statements in the C 
Code. 

Phil