Re: Relocatable installs

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > We already have --disable-rpath.  Seems we would just need something
> > to use the *.a files.
> 
> I think it is perfectly sufficient to say that if you want a relocatable 
> install, don't use rpath.  Static linking will lead to all other kinds 
> of madness.

OK, but if we don't use rpath, don't we have to do the ld.so.conf or
environment varaible usage so we can find our shared library.  I assume
the big problem with rpath is that it might find the wrong version of
our library, right?  Is there another downside to it being set?

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