LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[Albert Chin]

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)