Hello, I recently found out that if you set the SONAME of a library to an absolute path.
gcc --shared -Wl,-soname="$(pwd)/libxyz.so" -o libxyz.so libxyz.c and then later link to it gcc main.c -L. -lxyz the dynamic linker will only look for the library in the exact path specified when compiling the library. Advantages over RPATH: + probably faster since rpaths in nixos tend to be quite long and every library has to be looked for in every folder (linear vs quadratic complexity) + only has to be setup once per library - all referrers will automatically work correctly In this case the path can't be overwritten by LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I guess that could be an advantage or a disadvantage depending on how you look at it. Cheers Silvio _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
