On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:40:19 -0800 Danek Duvall wrote:
> How do you envision the same issues playing out in /usr/lib?
> Do we force developers who want their apps to link to a consistent set of
> libraries from one machine to the next to use -R/usr/sun/lib?
> One thing we've found over the years is that developers are either
> unwilling to use -R, don't know about it, or don't use it correctly. In
> general, forcing its use appears to be problematic.
> Or do you see another solution?
use
-Wl,-z,origin -Wl,-R,\$ORIGIN/../lib
and when
/usr/foo/bin/xyz
is moved/copied to
/usr/bar/bin/xyz
then so must its associated libraries
/usr/foo/lib/... => /usr/bar/lib/...
this allows a.out's to be installed in different bins without
requiring relink to reset static absolute -R paths
-- Glenn Fowler -- AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ --
