Re: Installing bash with rpath

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/20/19 12:03 PM, Mohammad Akhlaghi wrote:
> Dear Bash developers,
> 
> I am trying to build Bash for a relatively closed environment where I don't
> want the Bash executable to link with the system's libreadline and
> libncursesw, but my own installation of these libraries.
> 
> However, even when I configure bash with `--enable-rpath', and add
> `-Wl,-rpath-link=$my_install/lib' to LDFLAGS, the bash executable doesn't
> have the absolute address of these libraries in it.

Bash doesn't use --enable-rpath, and it's not in the list of options
configure supports. Have you tried --with-installed-readline=path?
And told the linker to use a specific directory for libraries using
LDFLAGS when running the make?

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