Re: Math/R package fix

[Brook Milligan <brook%nmsu.edu@localhost>]

> On Feb 17, 2022, at 3:02 PM, Dr. Thomas Orgis <thomas.orgis%uni-hamburg.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> To clarify: -Wl,-R/foo/bar/lib is perfectly fine with GNU ld. No comma
> needed (expected?). I use it all the time. It's just like -L/foo. It's
> not `ld -R /foo`, but `ld -R/foo`. So this is only broken on systems
> that don't understand -R.

I’m confused by this, because here is an excerpt of a recent ld man page (https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ld.1.html).  

-R filename
           For compatibility with other ELF linkers, if the -R option is
           followed by a directory name, rather than a file name, it is
           treated as the -rpath option.

It does have the space after -R and it does seem to imply that the -rpath option is the preferred one in this case of pointing to a directory. 

Perhaps actual implementations of ld are more lenient about the space than this indicates, but nonetheless it seems that -rpath should work everywhere.  By the way, this wording in the man page goes back to at least 1991.

Cheers,
Brook