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

[Peter Clifton]

On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 19:53 -0500, Ales Hvezda wrote:
> [snip]
> > > > 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?
> > > 
> > > Since it munges a system variable, doesn't it require root access?
> > 
> > No, its not a system variable. Its a hard-coded library search path
> > inserted in the executable at link time.
> 
> Please checkout the following thread on rpath:
> http://archives.seul.org/geda/dev/Jan-2005/threads.html#00169

Wow.. that got fairly heated.

> -Ales
> 
> PS. My stance hasn't changed (configurable). 

Configurable is good. Different settings for that suit very different
purposes... user dir install, system install, distro-package build etc..

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