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Originally Posted by henkvdg
I think, you can use Environment Variables or how-do-you-call-them.
So if a program starts, it could ask something like "where-am-I" (pwd?) and the resulting string could be used as prefix for all its files it depends on. Then you achieve position independency, I guess.
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I thought so too.
I've never had to specify the directory of anything I've compiled for Solaris or mac OSX (though maybe something is happening in the make files that I haven't been paying attention to). I've often had to set environment variables so libraries could be found, though.