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Re: relocatable-prog: Use $ORIGIN trick on more platforms
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Bruno Haible |
Subject: |
Re: relocatable-prog: Use $ORIGIN trick on more platforms |
Date: |
Sun, 24 Feb 2019 01:51:35 +0100 |
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And here's an update of the documentation:
2019-02-23 Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
relocatable-prog: Update documentation.
* doc/relocatable-maint.texi (Supporting Relocation): Update to match
the recent changes.
diff --git a/doc/relocatable-maint.texi b/doc/relocatable-maint.texi
index b95caaf..9f1b893 100644
--- a/doc/relocatable-maint.texi
+++ b/doc/relocatable-maint.texi
@@ -35,14 +35,21 @@ here in a platform-specific way:
@itemize
@item
-On GNU/Linux, it adds a linker option (@option{-rpath}) that causes
-the dynamic linker to search for libraries in a directory relative to
-the location of the invoked executable.
+On most operating systems, it adds a linker option (@option{-rpath}) that
+causes the dynamic linker to search for libraries in a directory relative
+to the location of the invoked executable. This works on GNU/Linux and
+modern versions of FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Haiku.
@item
-On other Unix systems, it installs a wrapper executable. The wrapper
+On macOS, it modifies the installed executables after installation in a way
+that causes the dynamic linker to search for libraries in a directory relative
+to the location of the invoked executable.
+
address@hidden
+On other Unix systems, it installs a trampoline executable. The trampoline
sets the environment variable that controls shared library searching
(usually @env{LD_LIBRARY_PATH}) and then invokes the real executable.
+This applies to operating systems such as AIX, HP-UX, or Minix.
@item
On Windows, the executable's own directory is searched for libraries,