Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sep 8, 2000, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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?
> Because on certain platforms this just can't be done before the library
> with which you want to link exists. Yes, it's brain-dead, but that's
> the way it is. Fortunately, this doesn't affect many systems.
Ah, okay. For such platforms, I'd simply install the libraries first,
release them, and then go to install the binaries. And be really annoyed
if there were no way to install the binaries with a different prefix
without having them link against the wrong library paths.
It sounds like a situation that really wants two separate install targets,
one for the libraries and one for the binaries, for those people who need
to install into a different path. It seems like this could be made
transparent to people who don't need this capability easily enough.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
