For some applications, for example epiphany, libtool uses the linker directives, -R or -rpath, to set runtime library search paths. Other applications do not.
It would appear that specifying a runtime library search path is a GNOME coding standards issue. I would think that specifying runtime library search path(s) is a good idea since the specification of such is only a "suggestion" that can be overridden by suing environment variables. -Joseph =============================================================================== On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 21:31 -0400, Carson Gaspar wrote: > --On Monday, July 25, 2005 9:25 PM -0400 "Joseph E. Sacco, PhD" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That is an interesting approach. Since "we" have the ability to patch > > things at various stages of a build ,pre-fetch to post-install, the .pc > > files could be "tweaked" as we choose. > > > >> From your experiences, which packages might be good candidates for .pc > > file modification? > > Last I checked, all of them that include -L arguments. _None_ of them set > rpath. I just grep'd for '-L' in the pkgconfig dirs and used a simple perl > script to modify them. That was a while ago, though - it was so much work I > just changed my build env to set LD_RUN_PATH, which (on Solaris) Just Works. > > But then I'm a firm believer that $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is Evil. > > -- > Carson > -- joseph_sacco [at] comcast [dot] net -- joseph_sacco [at] comcast [dot] net -- garnome-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/garnome-list
