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On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 16:27 +0100, Edi Weitz wrote:<BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">In the long run you should try to get rid of absolute pathnames at all</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">(or use them only for building) and trust the OS to find external</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">programs and shared libraries from the filename sans directories.</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">Otherwise it will be very hard or almost impossible to deliver</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">executables with Elephant using Lisps like LispWorks or AllegroCL. If</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">you're interested, you'll find a long discussion of these topics and a</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">way to cope with them in the CLSQL mailing list archive, around</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">mid-2005 IIRC. The thread, which lasted several months, was called</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">something like "How CLSQL finds and loads foreign libraries."</FONT></TT><BR>
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This is certainly reasonable; I will try to study the issue.<BR>
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