On 1/20/19 12:03 PM, Mohammad Akhlaghi wrote: > Dear Bash developers, > > I am trying to build Bash for a relatively closed environment where I don't > want the Bash executable to link with the system's libreadline and > libncursesw, but my own installation of these libraries. > > However, even when I configure bash with `--enable-rpath', and add > `-Wl,-rpath-link=$my_install/lib' to LDFLAGS, the bash executable doesn't > have the absolute address of these libraries in it.
Bash doesn't use --enable-rpath, and it's not in the list of options configure supports. Have you tried --with-installed-readline=path? And told the linker to use a specific directory for libraries using LDFLAGS when running the make? -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/