On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 16:42, Mike Hepburn wrote: > Alex, > > i found this description on the web -: > > "Because the executable that libtool creates (.libs/ld-new) is meant to > be installed, but when you want to run it in the build directory you > want to make sure that it finds the shared libraries in the build > directory, not the ones that may be installed earlier. To achieve this, > libtool relinks the binary with a special set of --rpath options > pointing into the build directory. This is done everytime the actual > binary is rebuilt. There is an option to libtool > (--disable-fast-install) that tells it to do the relinking at install > time, and the binary in the build directory is built with the > appropriate --rpath options in the first place. All this is > required because --rpath has precedence over LD_LIBRARY_PATH. On > systems were it doesn't libtool just uses LD_LIBRARY_PATH to achieve the > same effect." > > > Cheers > Mike >
That's not what I want though - its almost as if I've got --disable-fast-install on by default. Perhaps "fast-install=needless" is what I want... I'll give that a try. Alex. _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
