Auto-rpath revisited...

Lee Iverson leei@ai.sri.com
Mon Feb 23 15:57:00 GMT 1998


In message < Pine.NEB.3.96.980223094925.12722D-100000@like.duh.org > you write:
> On 21 Feb 1998, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
> : >> But I don't want you to shut up, I want to get this right.  What do
> : >> you want to be saved from?  As I said before, any rpath entries the
> : >> user specifies are retained and have highest priority.
> : 
> : > But this looses when the library isn't installed yet.
> : 
> : If the library isn't installed yet, you'll *have* to specify its
> : runtime path, so the right thing to do is to not guess library path if
> : the user specifies it himself.  However, for libraries that are
> : implicitly linked in by the compiler, it is reasonable that the
> : compiler provides the shared library runtime path itself.
> 
> What do you do in a cross-compile environment?

As H.J. Lu already pointed out, this functionality is disabled in
cross-sompile environment.

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