Darren J Moffat wrote: > Joachim Worringen wrote: >> Jason King wrote: >>>> Why is LD_LIBRARY_PATH needed at all ? Why can't the >>>> applications that need libraries fro /opt/DIS/lib be compiled properly >>>> and specifiy -R/opt/DIS/lib when they are built ? >>> Or '-R $ORIGIN/../lib' if they need to be relocatable? Both work on >>> both Solaris as well as Linux (at least recent versions of gnu ld -- >>> I've personally tested on RHEL4U3 & 6), so both are reasonably cross >>> platform. >> >> The library in question is for LD_PRELOAD usage. > > Then why are you asking about LD_LIBRARY_PATH then they do very > different things.
I didn't ask about LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I stated that I don't want to require users to set it to make the linker successfully locate the LD_PRELOAD'ed lib. Joachim -- Joachim Worringen, Software Architect, Dolphin Interconnect Solutions phone ++49/(0)228/324 08 17 - http://www.dolphinics.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
