How to make an application look somewhere other than /lib for ld-linux.so.2

[Mark Cuss]

Oh!  I didn't know you could do that!  Thanks very much!

Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Haren Visavadia" <themis_hv@yahoo.co.uk>
To: "Mark Cuss" <mcuss@cdlsystems.com>
Cc: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: How to make an application look somewhere other than /lib for 
ld-linux.so.2


> --- Mark Cuss wrote:
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>> For #1, if I build with --static, then no libraries
>> can be linked in
>> dynamically at runtime...  I need to do this for
>> some custom Qt libraries
>> and plugins, so I can't just make a completely
>> static executable.  This is
>> unfortunate - the resulting binaries would be big,
>> but they'd work on any
>> distro.
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> This is possible by using something like
> -Wl,-Bdynamic, (insert list of libraries to be
> dynamically linked),-Bstatic
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> For example, if you want to dynamically link against
> Qt library and glibc and rest of it being static, you
> can use -Wl,-Bdynamic,-lqt-mt,-lc,-Bstatic
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