From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2004-03-21T03:49:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Can $LOAD_PATH be relative?

Quoteing ptkwt@aracnet.com, on Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 03:39:30AM +0900:
> >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 

No, there is no such option, and it is not possible to reliably
implement such an option on unix:

  http://www.erlenstar.demon.co.uk/unix/faq_2.html#SEC23

Sam