On 12/6/05, Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) I'm very much inclined to remove the Win32 special casing (see also > r8673) > > There are already 2 possibilities to specify the runtime prefix (where > libs are searched). > a) perl Configure --prefix=foo > This sets the built in prefix for the installable executable > b) set the evironment variable PARROT_RUNTIME > > If a) isn't appropriate, because Parrot is installed into some > different place, then the install program can still use method b). > as long as there's a workable, documented solution that covers all operating systems, i'll make sure it's implemented correctly on windows. this will probably require no more than a few changes to the hints files in the configure system. if it helps improve the quality of the the library loading code, i'm all for it.
~jerry
