On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:19:45AM -0800, Craig Groeschel wrote: >> Does anyone have a good reason to not do this? > >I seem to remember an "rpath considered harmful" message from >around the time the libraries changed from R5 to R6. The >author said to use rpath-link instead of rpath. I don't know >if that would do what you want (sorry, it's been so long I >don't even remember the difference between the two. So >blackball me :) ) but it seems like a less draconian
rpath-link is supposed to be used for resolving dependencies when creating shared libraries. We point that to where the newly built libraries can be found during the build ($(TOP)/exports/lib). >alternative. I guess it depends on whether you want to leave >shared library configuration up to the administrator / ldconfig >or hard-wire it in. The administrator should be able to override it, IMHO. FreeBSD's dynamic loader uses the following search order according to a comment in its source: * The search order is: * rpath in the referencing file * LD_LIBRARY_PATH * ldconfig hints * /usr/lib David -- David Dawes X-Oz Technologies www.XFree86.org/~dawes www.x-oz.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
