> I have noticed that discussions about relocatability occured in the far > 2003. Why didn't relocatability maid its way into GTK+ and other > autotools packages? Isn't it essential to make a "normal" program?
It is not easy. In GNU Smalltalk, for example, on Mac OS X I only make the package relocatable if --disable-shared is used. Properly fixing this would require hacking Apple's install_name_tool into libtool. Paolo