mkcheck and rpath

[John David Anglin]

>>       mkcheck now uses --rpath in SH_FLAG.  AIX linker does not have a
>> --rpath option.  SH_FLAG used to be empty.  Is mkcheck suppose to be
>> portable any more?

> No. It's a plaything for the maintainers, who are assumed to be running 
> linux or solaris.

> That's why 'make check' defaults to the dejagnu harness, which is "portable."

> I'm also not quite sure how do testing for the shared libraries now that 
> libtool's been ditched. At the moment, I can't figure out what g++ does, 
> and am not sure how to do the --rpath thing in a portable manner, so that libstdc++.so is 
> found across all platforms and linkers.

> Suggestions welcome...

Switch back to libtool.  It worked for me under hpux and i686 linux.  
The hpux linker also has no --rpath option.  Why was libtool ditched?

Dave
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