what is -rpath supposed to do?

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On Thu, 9 Dec 1999 10:59:17 +0100, Cegetel <Cegetel@Cegetel.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>I'm trying to build Apache 1.3.9 for my Linux box (Suse 6.2).
>But there's a -rpath option used in the configuration file that seems not to
>be known by gcc...
>As you could expect, a path follows this option...

The -rpath option should given to the linker ld. It is the same as -L for gcc.
I rember compiling apache I had the same problem and changed all -rpath to -L
in the Makefiles. Maybe not the propper method to this, but worked for me.

cu