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Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 11:12:03AM -0800, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 07:50:21PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>
> > This is an issue coming up again and again, and it really seems to
> > burn users, especially since we switched to libgcc_s.so.
>
> ...and it will continue to come up again and again so long as the GCC
> driver does not record an rpath to the GCC-distributed shared libraries
> by passing an -R for every -L passed to the linker (lossage is especially
> colorful for people who have multiple versions of the compiler installed :-).
>
> I'm still puzzled as to why that idea is shot down every time it is
> suggested...
This cannot be done for every platform. HP-UX, Tru64 UNIX, and AIX
don't treat multiple -R arguments additively like IRIX, Solaris, and
Linux.
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albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)