Hello Jan, all, * Jan Horan wrote on Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 11:06:55AM CEST: > > Note also that using of RPATH is obsolete (DT_RPATH in ELF) due to > it's incorrect precedence to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. > RUNPATH (DT_RUNPATH) should be used instead. This is from man ld.so:
This is very platform specific (even existence of DT_RUNPATH is, while DT_RPATH is specified by ELF). Among all the systems which use the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH, some let it override run paths, some don't. On GNU/Linux, whether `ld -rpath' sets DT_RPATH only, or also DT_RUNPATH, varies even among distributions (for example Gentoo has ld patched to do the latter, most others don't). Libtool tries to get $shlibpath_overrides_runpath correct for each of the systems, so you should be able to find out by looking at that (the logic is in libtool.m4; CVS HEAD's is a bit better than branch-1-5). FWIW, I wouldn't call one or the other precedence "better". Both have advantages and disadvantages. IIRC, some systems even have two different environment variables, one of which overrides the embedded run path, one doesn't. Bottom line is, if you're out for portability, you can't be certain of any of these semantics. One reason for Libtool's existence. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
