> On Dec 4, 2015, at 8:49 PM, Daniel Dunbar <daniel_dun...@apple.com> wrote: > > >> On Dec 4, 2015, at 6:37 PM, Ugo Arangino <sw...@ua94.de> wrote: >> >> Why is the Dynamic linker DT_RPATH set, instead of configure it like this >> `/etc/ld.so.conf.d/swift.conf` or copying the libraries to a appropriate >> place? > > For the initial release, we felt it was more important for things to work > locally (and simply) for people downloading our snapshots than to support > this and have more complicated installation instructions. We also suspected > that people would quickly try things like building Docker images with Swift, > and this problem doesn't show up for users who are building their projects > that way. > > That said, we would welcome concrete proposals for how to improve the support > for portable or distributable binaries. Those proposals should take into > account whatever is happening with regard to system Swift packages.
In a previous thread, someone asked about statically linking in libswiftCore. That seems like a reasonable configuration to support on Linux to get easily-deployable independent binaries. -Joe _______________________________________________ swift-users mailing list swift-users@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users
