On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 at 09:36, Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote:
> Hi Reuben,
>
> > doc/relocatable.texi contains the following text:
> >
> >
> > > Also, installation with
> > > @option{--enable-relocatable} might not work on OpenBSD, when the
> > > package contains shared libraries and libtool versions 1.5.xx are used.
> > >
> >
> > I checked, and the last version of OpenBSD to ship with libtool 1.5 was
> > 5.0, support for which ended in November 2012. Perhaps this text can
> > therefore be removed?
>
> This text was written (see 'git annotate doc/relocatable.texi') in 2007,
> that is, one year before libtool 2.2 was released. It was based on a
> prediction about how libtool versions 2.x would behave [1]. Have you
> verified that this prediction has come true?
>
Thanks for looking into this!
I believe the prediction has come true; from libtool's NEWS for version
2.1b:
- On (AIX?,) HP-UX, and OpenBSD, hardcoding has been changed to prefer
rpath over absolute dependent library names. This fixes DESTDIR
installs, among others, on the non-HP-UX/PA systems.
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