Relocation Notes

Interesting resources:

• Relocation macros in the Autoconf Macro Archive
  • AX_COMPUTE_RELATIVE_PATHS(PATH-LIST)
  • AX_COMPUTE_STANDARD_RELATIVE_PATHS
• Autopackage project
  • Apbuild / Apgcc
  • Guide to Making Relocatable Applications (BinReloc 2.0)
• Gnulib relocation macro(s)
• The nixpkgs project uses a few techniques for working around relocation issues, but the main one appears to be a "wrapper generator" script to create wrappers that set env vars.
• For .NET software using the Mono framework, see http://www.mono-project.com/Guidelines:Application_Deployment#Relocation.