On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 11:11:26AM -0500, Stephen Harris wrote:
> The solution, obviously, is LDFLAGS=-Wl,-R/opt/mystuff/lib ./configure....
> and now everything configures and builds cleanly, but it might be nice
> for that to be automatic.
RPATH is evil. If you're going to install libraries in non-standard
paths, at least include those paths in the system-wide library search
path or add them to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
You could even symlink the libs into /usr/lib, that would also solve
the problem.
Have a nice day,
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