Re: [HACKERS] dynamic libraries

On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Billy G. Allie wrote:
> On UnixWare 7.0 (and Solaris systems, also) I export LD_RUN_PATH which
> contains the paths to the dynamic libraries.  When the linker runs, it
> incorporates the paths into the output file so that LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not
> needed to find the needed dynamic libraries.

Damnit, I'm really getting annoyed by all of this...  An ELF system should
not be using ldconfig or LD_LIBRARY_PATH to find its libraries.

ELF executables are told where to find their binaries at compile time.  On
Solaris this involves using '-R/path/to/libs' to add the a path to be
compiled into the binary.  I believe this works for Linux/ELF as well.
FreeBSD/ELF is using -rpath I think, but someone should check. (I'm
converting my 3.0-current system to ELF at the moment but its only a
486dx50 so its kind of slow.)

If PostgreSQL is not doing this IT IS BROKEN.

Regardless, do whatever you want; I keep on fixing this myself when I
compile new releases so I'm not likely to notice any further brokeness.

Have a good one.

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