"Go means to make life easier, however, it goes other direction. On Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 10:43:01 AM UTC-7, Peter Kleiweg wrote: > > Op zaterdag 6 april 2013 15:52:05 UTC+2 schreef Ian Lance Taylor het > volgende: > > Now that we use external linking, this is going to be pushed into the >> > > What's that, external linking? > > >> space of the external linker. External linkers historically do not >> add -L options to the shared library search path, because it leads to >> a problem that is the reverse of the one you cite. At runtime, the >> program can wind up searching many directories unnecessarily. This is >> particularly bad when those directories are mounted using NFS or FUSE >> or some such technology. >> >> From Go's perspective it would be easy to say "whenever we pass a -L >> option to the system linker, also pass a -Wl,-rpath option." It would >> also be easy for the gcc driver to do this, and it would be easy for >> an ELF linker to do this. The question, then, is whether the go tool >> should behave differently from those older tools. >> > > Yes, do it differently. Go was meant to make life easier. It doesn't use > download, extract, configure, make, make install, it uses go get, which is > enough most of the time. I say, make it work too in those cases where now > it doesn't work because of missing paths to C libraries. > > For the user it's simple: a program should work, or it is useless. So, > make it work, without the need of special actions by the user. > > So yes, pass that option to the linker. If it is not necessary, the linker > drops it anyway. If it is necessary to run the program, than add it. > > > Ideally pkg-config would provide the right answer. It does have >> support for this. So one question to ask would be why pkg-config >> isn't doing the right thing for the library in question. >> > > Because it is also used to build binary distributions of programs? > >
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