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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