Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 02:48 -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>
>> then libtool should be fixed. there is no documented requirement that
>> the path has to be normalized.
>>
> While there's no specifically documented requirement, there is a common
> sense one. Libtool doesn't make any attempt to normalise the paths
> given to it, in fact it's kinda a tricky issue ... for example:
>
> If you used -rpath /usr/mylib and that was a symlink to /usr/lib, would
> you expect that to be RPATHd or not?
/usr/mylib is normalized while not being canonical on your system.
I would expect . and .. to get removed while links are not removed if
libtool is to do any normalization.
> I'm tempted to actually leave non-normalisation in as a "cute hack" to
> force a /usr/lib rpath when you really want one.
Can't you then just add -rpath to LD_FLAGS?
> Scott
MfG
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