On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:33:36AM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > Clemens Fruhwirth wrote: > > >>Libtool's fondness for cooking RPATH into binaries makes it very > >>difficult to deal with, because it's quite common for those binaries to > >>get installed and distributed, RPATH and all. RPATH should only be used > >>by a user who knows they have a large-calibre weapon pointed at their > >>foot. > > > >Did I understand that correctly that you don't want to see binaries > >with rpath's pointing to install directories such as /usr/lib/gcc-6.6? > > That's right. > > >So, this forces us to use a wrapper in all cases. > > Not necessarily. Many systems provide a global mechanism to manage the > paths that ld.so searches for shared objects. This is the standard on > Linux, for example (/etc/ld.so.conf). For systems that don't provide > this mechanism, one possibility would be to provide an option that cooks > the rpath in.
Or better yet, put them directly in one of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH dirs. $PREFIX/lib/ghc-$VERSION is a relic of the static library system and IMO shouldn't be duplicated. Stefan _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
