Re: Feature request: Relocatable perl

[Graham Barr]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 03:09:19PM -0400, John Tobey wrote:
> > Solaris 7 onwards has a nice linker feature called $ORIGIN.  This allows
> > the location of run-time linker dependencies to be specified relative to
> > the location of the executable.
> 
> Both Windows and Linux can swing this, too.  I believe linux (GNU
> Libc, to be precise) uses $ORIGIN in a Solaris-compatible way.

It is not just libraries, but also the perl @INC that needs to
be dynamic

Graham.