Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Unfortunately, it's not that simple, in general. For example, thinking
> of libtool, on some platforms, shared libraries and programs that depend
> on them have to be re-linked at install time to have the proper run-time
> library search paths encoded in them.
I don't understand why this would be the case. Why can't the proper
run-time library search path be encoded when the binary or library is
built?
> As soon as you specify a different prefix, you lose, because either
> libraries and executables will get the install-time path encoded in
> them, or re-linking will fail because the libraries you want to be
> linking with can't be found in the run-time path yet (or you may get
> them linked with already-installed older versions of them).
This sounds like a pretty serious bug in libtool to me.
It can't even do the right thing with DESTDIR? If it can do the right
thing with DESTDIR, it can do the right thing with a different prefix for
make install.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
