wp-load.php with clean svn install and symlinked core

Guten Tag! ??

I’d like to host several blogs on one server an have the possibility to move them around between different servers. I chose the Clean SVN Install and it works great. Together with a homegrown multi-server-config i’m really close to what i want. But i’d like to have the WordPress-core in a different location and link it with a symlink in the directories of the blogs.

And here’s my problem: wp-load.php searches wp-config.php in ABSPATH (normal location) and one directory up. That’s where it normally is with a Clean SVN Install, but ABSPATH is made of __FILE__ and contains the “real” directory and not the path of the symlink.

For showing the blog to public i can simply patch /index.php by doing what is normally done by wp-blog-header.php and wp-load.php, but this doesn’t work with the admin pages.

Of course i could patch wp-load.php, but patching core files is the most important thing i want to avoid with the clean svn checkout.

I hope this doesn’t sound too confusig to you. If you want i can give futher information about what i do and want.

– Matthias

[edit: translated to english]