Re: [PATCH] new -no-rpath option to disable hardcoding of library paths

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Nov  3, 2003, Scott James Remnant <address@hidden> wrote:

> +     * m4/libtool.m4: Add new -no-rpath option that disables hardcoding
> +     of library paths into libraries or executables.

FWIW, I liked this better than parsing ld.so.conf.  The reason is
that, when you build with -no-rpath, you get what you ask for, i.e.,
you know you're likely going to have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH or tweak
ld.so.conf to run the application, but if you happen to have lots of
directories in ld.so.conf and build a program and/or libs that are in
one of those dirs, but they turn out to not be in there on someone
else's box, your program just won't run there without LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
and it may be hard to find out why.

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