Re: Using -rpath on Linux
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 15:06:16 +0100, Jan Vroonhof said:
problem. The main reason that we were not using -rpath on linux as
opposed to say Solaris, is that on Linux -rpath takes precedence
always. You cannot override with things like LD_LIBRARY_PATH [2]. On
Solaris -rpath is more of a "place to search in last resort thing."[3]
I remembered that something sucked about it, I just couldn't remember
what. ;)
Do any machines have dynamic libraries that Dont Suck? Or is the
fact that everybody's libraries suck in different ways just job security? ;)
(For those who care, AIX's support of .so versus .a is truly weird
and Sucks Like A Hoover - if you want a .so flavor library, but forget
to link with -brtl, it will *link*, and *start* to run, but some symbols
may be *silently* misresolved - ever seen a program SIGSEGV while trying to
reference 'errno'? ;)
/Valdis