gEDA-dev: Using libtool to link gschem.... RPATH header for library search

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 02:02:42PM +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was thinking a bit about the need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH for the
> common case where a user installs gEDA in their home directory. It
> represents one more barrier to getting things working, and stops users
> being able to create desktop launchers pointing directly at the
> application. (You'd need a wrapper script).
> 
> It turns out that linking with libtool:
> libtool --mode=link gcc .....
> 
> will add an appropriate RPATH entry for the libraries we link with. This
> should solve the problem, and as we already (IIRC) hard-code a path to
> the GEDADATADIR in libgeda anyway.
> 
> Is this a good idea?

Sorry, I'm a few weeks behind on this list due to recent holiday.

With regard to RPATH, Debian hates it. It prevents libraries being moved
around the search path (as specified by /etc/ld.so.conf), which is
something we have had to do before eg during the libc5 to libc6
transition. So if possible please make use of RPATH optional.

thanks,
Hamish
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