Re: Making rpath a bit more flexible

Am Montag, 11. Oktober 2004 22:31 schrieb Tom Lane:
> The problem of course is that we have no rpath pointing to the place
> where libperl.so lives.  (Now that I look, the only reason this worked
> before was that I had /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE
> mentioned in /etc/ld.so.conf in my old installation.)

This is a bug in the operating system.  It should be configured so that it can 
find all libraries that it installs itself.

> What I would like to do about this is change the platform-specific
> makefiles to provide these macros in the form
>  rpath = -Wl,-rpath,$(rpathdir)

I have no problem with that.  But are there going to be cases where we need to 
point to more than one library path?

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Peter Eisentraut
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