Relocatability of @__DIR__

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I am using the DIR macro in a function like:

function foo()
    return joinpath(@__DIR__, "myfile.ext")
end

If function foo() gets precompiled using PackageCompiler.jl into a sysimage, the @__DIR__ is “hardcoded” into the function. This entails that I can not relocate that sysimage anywhere (which otherwise works as expected).

Is there any other way to lookup that folder, so that it gets evaluated at runtime?

2

Does this work?

my_dir = Ref{String}()

function __init__()
    my_dir[] = @__DIR__
end

function foo()
    return joinpath(my_dir[], "myfile.ext")
end
3

But see the caveats in the README.

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