Hi Brian, * Brian Lu wrote on Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 11:05:26AM CET: > > I need to set '$ORIGIN' in final executable RUNPATH. So user can install > Ekiga anywhere he likes. I uses '-R $ORIGIN' to achieve this. > But libtool told me that '-R' option doesn't support relative path.
Right. Libtool is missing several bits to be able to properly support such relocatable installations. One issue is that the installed libtool library file (the one ending in .la) will have absolute paths, so if you later link some program against the installed library using libtool, it will not get the correct run path if the package has been moved elsewhere. Another issue is that libtool does not yet have the proper logic to follow multiple installed libraries with interdependencies in the $ORIGIN case. > Can someone tell me why or if there is a workaround? Sorry, as far as I know there is currently no good workaround for this. I realize that this is very desirable, though, and would like to fix it eventually. But it'll not be trivial, and require a few changes. Sorry, Ralf _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
