g++, RH 2.1 and rpath

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul  2, 2003, "Ajay Bansal" <Ajay_Bansal@infosys.com> wrote:

> If I use rpath, do I still need to use -L for specifying library search
> paths? 

-rpath encodes directories in the run-time search path of an
executable, that the dynamic linker (ld.so) uses to find shared
libraries.  -L tells the linker (ld) where to look for libraries
specified in the command line, at link time.  -rpath-link tells the
linker (ld) where to look for dynamic libraries that are mentioned as
dependencies of other dynamic libraries that are linked.  IIRC, -rpath
is the default for -rpath-link, but definitely not for -L.

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