Re: How to build an RPATH into gcc?

[Adrian Bunk <bunk at fs dot tum dot de>]

On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 10:18:46PM -0600, llewelly@xmission.com wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> writes:
>...
> > > You have 3 alternatives;
> > > 
> > >     (0) build gcc staticly linked,
> > 
> > Can I link only libintl and libiconv (but not libc) statically?
> > If yes, how?
> 
> I don't think this can be done without serious hacking of the gcc
>     configure and build system.
> 
> You might try setting LDFLAGS to 
>     '/usr/local/libintl.a /usr/local/libiconv.a' before running
>     configure, but I don't think that will work.

If a -R/usr/local/lib (as tried first) in LDFLAGS would have worked,
there was no problem.

> > 
> > >     (1) use LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
> > 
> > That's what I want to avoid, e.g. because this sometimes makes it 
> > non-trivial to compile other software.
> 
> I forgot to mention that you could also use LD_PRELOAD, but that has
>     a similar disadvantage. But LD_PRELOAD allows you to list only
>     specific libraries, instead of whole directories.
>...

LD_PRELOAD can't help with my problem.

cu
Adrian

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