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-@node Enabling Relocatability
-@section Enabling Relocatability
-
-It has been a pain for many users of GNU packages for a long time that
-packages are not relocatable. It means a user cannot copy a program,
-installed by another user on the same machine, to his home directory,
-and have it work correctly (including i18n). So many users need to go
-through @code{configure; make; make install} with all its
-dependencies, options, and hurdles.
-
-Red Hat, Debian, and similar package systems solve the ``ease of
-installation'' problem, but they hardwire path names, usually to
-@file{/usr} or @file{/usr/local}. This means that users need root
-privileges to install a binary package, and prevents installing two
-different versions of the same binary package.
-
-A relocatable program can be moved or copied to a different location
-on the filesystem. It is possible to make symlinks to the installed
-and moved programs, and invoke them through the symlink. It is
-possible to do the same thing with a hard link @emph{only} if the hard
-link file is in the same directory as the real program.
-
-To configure a program to be relocatable, add
-@option{--enable-relocatable} to the @command{configure} command line.
-
-On some OSes the executables remember the location of shared libraries
-and prefer them over any other search path. Therefore, such an
-executable will look for its shared libraries first in the original
-installation directory and only then in the current installation
-directory. Thus, for reliability, it is best to also give a
-@option{--prefix} option pointing to a directory that does not exist
-now and which never will be created, e.g.@:
-@option{--prefix=/nonexistent}. You may use
-@code{DESTDIR=@var{dest-dir}} on the @command{make} command line to
-avoid installing into that directory.
-
-We do not recommend using a prefix writable by unprivileged users
-(e.g.@: @file{/tmp/inst$$}) because such a directory can be recreated
-by an unprivileged user after the original directory has been removed.
-We also do not recommend prefixes that might be behind an automounter
-(e.g.@: @file{$HOME/inst$$}) because of the performance impact of
-directory searching.
-
-Here's a sample installation run that takes into account all these
-recommendations:
-
-@example
-./configure --enable-relocatable --prefix=/nonexistent
-make
-make install DESTDIR=/tmp/inst$$
-@end example
-
-Installation with @option{--enable-relocatable} will not work for
-setuid or setgid executables, because such executables search only
-system library paths for security reasons. Also, installation with
-@option{--enable-relocatable} might not work on OpenBSD, when the
-package contains shared libraries and libtool versions 1.5.xx are used.
-
-The runtime penalty and size penalty are negligible on GNU/Linux (just
-one system call more when an executable is launched), and small on
-other systems (the wrapper program just sets an environment variable
-and executes the real program).