On 11/07/14 03:15 PM, Alex Crichton wrote: >> LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not known about by many > > The install.sh script now recommends adding an entry to this variable > if it detects that this is necessary, so it's not *entirely* unknown. > This doesn't help, however, if it's considered a bad practice. > >> 1) Link dependencies of rustc statically to it? > > For plugins to work, we're required to link libstd and friends > dynamically to rustc, so sadly we're require to link rustc itself > dynamically. > >> 2) On Windows the folder of the executable is always searched for >> dependencies. Is this the case on Linux too? Then you could just let 'make >> install' copy everything next to rustc. > > I do not believe that this is this case for linux or OSX, only for windows.
It's not acceptable to dump a bunch of libraries in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin anyway.
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