Is this supposed to work, or am I loopy?

[Phil Edwards]

Under sparc-sun-solaris2.8, we can set the shared library search path thusly:

    % /stuff/pme/Ebuild/bin/g++ -R/stuff/pme/Ebuild/lib huh.cc
    % /stuff/pme/Ebuild/bin/g++ -R /stuff/pme/Ebuild/lib huh.cc
    %

Handy, that.

Under i686-pc-linux-gnu, however (sorry about the long lines):

    24% /home/pme/build/install-2001-01-04/bin/g++ -R/home/pme/build/install-2001-01-04/lib huh.cc
    g++: unrecognized option `-R/home/pme/build/install-2001-01-04/lib'
    25% /home/pme/build/install-2001-01-04/bin/g++ -rpath /home/pme/build/install-2001-01-04/lib huh.cc
    g++: unrecognized option `-rpath'
    /home/pme/build/install-2001-01-04/lib: file not recognized: Is a directory
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
    26%

Is there nothing supported under Linux other than using a pair of -Wl
options?  According to its manual, GNU ld would recognize -Rfoo as a runtime
library search path setting when foo is a directory, if the driver weren't
killing it first.



Phil

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