On 31 March 2011 13:04, Fred Drake <fdr...@acm.org> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:08 PM, kiorky <kio...@cryptelium.net> wrote: >> You have rpath to record search paths for shared libraries at link time. >> This enables you not to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH at runtime. >> >> Something like "cc -Wl,-rpath,/path/to/libdir -L/path/to/libdir -lfoo" is >> what >> you want. > > This fails once you want to relocate the built packages, but if you > know what the installed location is going to be, can be incredibly > helpful.
On SYSV-like systems you can use $ORIGIN inside RUNPATH (and RPATH) to create relative paths starting from the location of the library. Regards Floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig