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Re: mkcheck and rpath
- To: libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: mkcheck and rpath
- From: "John David Anglin" <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 19:04:27 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: bkoz at redhat dot com
>> mkcheck now uses --rpath in SH_FLAG. AIX linker does not have a
>> --rpath option. SH_FLAG used to be empty. Is mkcheck suppose to be
>> portable any more?
> No. It's a plaything for the maintainers, who are assumed to be running
> linux or solaris.
> That's why 'make check' defaults to the dejagnu harness, which is "portable."
> I'm also not quite sure how do testing for the shared libraries now that
> libtool's been ditched. At the moment, I can't figure out what g++ does,
> and am not sure how to do the --rpath thing in a portable manner, so that libstdc++.so is
> found across all platforms and linkers.
> Suggestions welcome...
Switch back to libtool. It worked for me under hpux and i686 linux.
The hpux linker also has no --rpath option. Why was libtool ditched?
Dave
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