Trouble doing bootstrap

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Ian Lance Taylor wrote on Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 06:56:27PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues writes:
> > Provide a configure switch --with-hardcoded-gccdeps that adds run path
> > entries for pre-installed support libraries?
> 
> I'm fine with that, but it just introduces another configure option for
> people to learn about.  If we have to teach people something, I'd rather
> teach them to use --disable-shared when they build the libraries
> themselves.

OK.  I won't argue my point further, but I am interested to learn why
shared libraries in nonstandard locations are seemingly frowned upon
here.  Is that due to fragility of the libtool approach of relinking,
or for relocatability issues of the installed program?

Thanks,
Ralf