Subject: RPATH (was Re: new packages)
To: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/10/1998 10:03:18
On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Tim Rightnour wrote:
: Please include -Wl,-R$(LOCALBASE)/lib or -Wl,-R$(X11BASE)/lib whenever you use
: the corresponding -L option. This is an elf thing, and will not affect a.out
: packages in any way. It will however correctly build the ELF packages. Its
: usually a matter of adding this to the LDFLAGS somewhere in the pkg, in front
: of whatever -L options you specify. This is only needed when linking shared
: libraries in..
This is even easier with GNU pkgs. If you add
CONFIGURE_ENV+= LDFLAGS="-Wl,-R${LOCALBASE}/lib"
(or X11BASE, or both, as appropriate), it will DTRT automatically.
--
-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)