On 05/14/2010 09:14 AM, Sam Spilsbury wrote:
Hi,

I'm working for the Compiz project[1] and have just finished
implementing a CMake buildsystem.

Currently, we are linking "plugins" to an executable and various
internal libraries by passing their paths within the build tree to
library_dirs (). While this shows up in the linker command line
correctly, it seems that the libraries don't actually link (upon
inspection with ldd).

The only solution I've found so far is to use something like:

        set_target_properties (
            ${plugin} PROPERTIES
            INSTALL_RPATH_USE_LINK_PATH 1
             BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH 1
             SKIP_BUILD_RPATH 0
            COMPILE_FLAGS "${${_PLUGIN}_CFLAGSADD}"
            LINK_FLAGS "${${_PLUGIN}_LDFLAGSADD}"
        )

See [2]

and

     set_target_properties (
       ${plugin} PROPERTIES
       INSTALL_RPATH ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib
     )

See [3]

Unfortunately, fedora and debian both strictly prohibit the use of
rpath in their packaging guidelines. Is there any way I could get
these libraries to link properly without the use of setting RPATH?

Kind Regards,

Sam.

[1] www.compiz.org
[2] http://git.compiz.org/compiz/core/tree/cmake/CompizPlugin.cmake#n384
[3] http://git.compiz.org/compiz/core/tree/plugins/decor/CMakeLists.txt#n7


Linux distributions typically use ld.so.conf or manual methods instead of rpaths. For plugins, it could be manual by doing a dlopen() with an absolute path. But I'm curious if they also disallow using $ORIGIN in the rpath. You could let cmake do normal rpath stuff in your build directory, then use a non-rpath solution when installed.

Clint

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