rpath and libtool == testsuite woes

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Fri Aug 8 04:54:00 GMT 2003


On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 03:16:02PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Aug  7, 2003, Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > Why do we use rpath anywhere in the gcc build process?
> 
> libtool uses rpath such that an installed library finds its
> dependencies in the install tree, and a library in the build tree
> finds its dependnecies in the build tree.  The problem is that
> libgcc_s.so is not a libtool library, so libtool can't do its magic on
> it, since it can't even tell whether the library is in its final
> install location.

What's the proper fix for running the libjava testsuite then?
I just hacked around it..

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre



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