IA64 HP-UX libtool / gcc question about shared libraries

[David Edelsohn]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Steve Ellcey <sje@cup.hp.com> wrote:

> To fix it in libtool I think we would have to stop using +nodefaultrpath
> when building shared libraries so that there is a search path to use in
> the shared libraries.  This seems simple but I am not sure about all the
> ramifications of doing this and that makes me a bit nervous.
>
> Any opinions or ideas on how (or where) this problem should be fixed?

libtool on AIX inserts a search path into shared libraries, but it often
chooses a bloated series of search directories.  The search path works
but it searches for build directories not present on the install system.

David