On 14 Apr 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Apr 14, 2000, Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Doesn't either setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or the equivalent variable for
> > your particular system) or adding the weird location to /etc/ld.so.conf
> > (or the equivalent file for your particular system) generally solve the
> > problem?
>
> It solves it at run-time. But when you're installing programs for
> others to use, and you don't want them to have to mess around with any
> of those, i.e., you want the programs to ``just work'', this just
> doesn't cut it.
Shell scripts work nicely here :-) They also help to make a generally non
relocatable binary relocatable...
But seriously for simple cases where only one or two special libraries
need to be installed people are not likely to use libtool anyway and they
are also not likely to properly deal with the rpath issues....
However I do admit that the *-config scripts discourage the use of
properly making sure all libraries are linked in.
Nevertheless, a lot of people will still probably expect them and I would
still like to provide a pspell-config script but I will make sure users
are well aware of how it may may fail and that they should really use
libtool to be more robust.
Will a release version of libtool work correctly with a *.la file created
with the multilib branch?
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Kevin Atkinson
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http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/
