bug#41038: gcc creates binaries that don't find their shared libraries

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Danny,

Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:

> I remember being tripped up by this when I started using Guix.  It is 
> annoying.
>
> I wonder if it's possible to instruct gcc (or ld, I guess) to automatically
> add rpath to where it found the respective library.  That's really what we
> expect to happen in Guix.

See the comment at the top of ld-wrapper.in.  I tried hard to avoid
having a wrapper at all but came to the conclusion that this was the
best we could do (it’s already better than what Nixpkgs did/does, which
is to wrap the whole compiler).

Thanks,
Ludo’.