On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Patrick Walton <pcwal...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On 7/9/14 7:42 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > >> This seems like madness. No other programming language out there that >> I've seen requires developers to mangle these environment variables. >> > > Also, when installing Rust you don't have to mangle these environment > variables, since the libraries will be placed into the right place. This > should only impact anyone who builds from source without installing. > Fair enough, although you could make it work in both scenarios without environment variables on Mac by linking with absolute paths and -headerpad_max_install_names to the build directory and then rewriting the load commands to the final destination with install_name_tool on install. Probably more trouble than it's worth. > As detailed in the meeting where this decision was made, Linux distros > really dislike it when you mess with rpath; it's a deal-breaker in many > cases. Agreed, I misunderstood that everything does work correctly when installed. My bad! -bob
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