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[Bug libfortran/46607] [4.6 Regression] libgfortran relocated install fails
- From: "joseph at codesourcery dot com" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:55:47 +0000
- Subject: [Bug libfortran/46607] [4.6 Regression] libgfortran relocated install fails
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- References: <bug-46607-4@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46607
--- Comment #8 from joseph at codesourcery dot com <joseph at codesourcery dot com> 2011-01-25 16:55:18 UTC ---
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, rwild at gcc dot gnu.org wrote:
> But there is a good reason to relink on ELF: uninstalled libraries and
> executables get DT_RPATH entries against uninstalled libraries they depend on,
> so that uninstalled programs can be executed in a test suite before installing
> the libraries they depend on. Removing (or replacing) those DT_RPATH entries
> is the point of relinking. That GCC takes care of the uninstalled paths in
> some other way as well is something libtool cannot know.
Of course it can know - it just needs an appropriate way for GCC to inform
libtool that the GCC testsuites take care of library paths.