Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
> > In Linux you can locally install a whole database server under an
> > unprivileged
> > user's directory and work just fine for development purposes.
>
> Then you move it to another directory and it doesn't work anymore because of
> hardcoded-at-compile-time paths to, for example, config files. Try it with
> POV-Ray! The default Library_Path is set that way.

I don't know what you're talking about.  I did this to a PostgreSQL install I
had at some floppy.  PostgreSQL also has configurable command-line switches for
telling root and config dir...

I've also had lots of fun in the past by directly exchanging some libs for
others at command-line call time with ldd, /lib/ld-linux (or something like
that) and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  oh, the feeling of power... :D

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