Re: [gs-devel] ghostscript-8.13rc1 build feedback

[Ralph Giles]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 06:19:25PM -0700, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:

> Fortunately, I have automated build procedures which handle the
> problem, but most end users and small-system maintainers don't.  That
> is why I'd like to see -I$(prefix)/include and -L$(prefix)/lib flags
> provided by default, and where applicable, also -R$(prefix)/lib or
> -Wl,-rpath=$(prefix)/lib, so that the executable records the link-time
> location of any shared libraries that it needs.  Otherwise, it won't
> run unless LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set, but that is unworkable too.

Have you considered writing an autoconf macro to implement this? I imagine that 
would lower the 
barrier to adoption of this feature. I believe libtool may do the rpath stuff, 
but it's the least 
commonly used of the autotools; having a simple encaspulation of the 
portability knowledge 
for use in any autoconf script would be nice.

 -r