Re: Shared library search paths

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>Some platforms (OSF/cc, HPUX) are already using -rpath or equivalent, so
>you don't have to specify a shared library search path at runtime. I think
>that a lot more platforms could use this. Can people comment on whether
>and how it works on their platform? Essentially,
>
>LDFLAGS+=-rpath '$(libdir)'
>
>might do the trick for most.

As far as Debian is concerned, use of rpath is a bug. Here's a quote from
some Debian system documentation:

libtool automatically inserts `-rpath' settings when compiling your
program. But `-rpath' can cause big problems if the referenced
libraries get updated. Therefore, no Debian package should use the
`-rpath' option.

libtool also refuses to link shared libraries against other shared
libraries. Debian packages have to at least link against libc (with
"-lc"), so that the dynamic linker knows whether to use the
libc5-compat libraries or not.

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