Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 05:19:16PM -0500, Dan McMahill wrote:
> 
>>So, whats the best way to fix this?
>>
>>1)  maybe wcalc-config should't try to include any rpath flags and leave 
>>it up to the programs which link to it.  Of course since the wrapper 
>>scripts seem to get tripped up sometimes during my rpath tests, I'm not 
>>sure this will work right.
>>
>>2)  some magic variable in cad/libwcalc/Makefile or 
>>cad/gtk-wcalc/Makefile that causes either the first autoconf test to 
>>give more accurate results or to fix up the command on the second?
> 
> 
> 3) Use libtool for what it is intended to do.
> 
> I think that is the easiest and most portable solution. Just don't
> hard-wire any strange conditionals in configure based on libtool.m4
> please :-)

I think I'm missing something here.  libtool is used for building 
libwcalc already.  If someone wants to link to libwcalc, it seems like 
they should be able to just do

   cc -o foo foo.c `wcalc-config --libs`

but that doesn't quite work unless you can get the correct rpath flags 
into wcalc-config.  I took a look at x11/gtk/patch-af and the -Wl,-Rpath 
is just hard patched into gtk-config, but I wonder if that is a portable 
  thing or not.

It seems that `pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --libs` also gives  rpath flags 
because they are listed in /usr/pkg/lib/pkgconfig/gtk+-2.0.pc.  Further 
digging shows that the magic variable PKGCONFIG_OVERRIDE is what adds 
the rpath flags.  So I guess I could use pkg-config for libwcalc instead 
of wcalc-config.


-Dan