Re: IRIX inheriting RPATH of libraries

[Albert Chin]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 11:37:27AM -0500, Albert Chin wrote:
> Ugh! Looks like IRIX will inherit the RPATH of a library. So, say
> program foo is linked against libbar2.so and libbar2.so is dependent
> on libbar1.so. At build time, the runtime path of the .libs directory
> containing libbar1.so will be added to the RPATH entry of libbar2.so.
> Then, when program foo is created, this .libs directory is added to
> the RPATH entry of program foo. Because program foo is not relinked at
> install time, it keeps this RPATH entry.
> 
> Looks like we need another variable, inherit_rpath, that relinks
> programs when true.

Ok, rather than doing this, I'm going to set fast_install=no on IRIX.

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albert chin (address@hidden)