Re: [PATCH] add /usr/X11R6/lib and /usr/local/lib to Linux sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec

[Scott James Remnant]

On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 17:32, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> Lets take ImageMagick as a sample package.  This is often delivered
> with libraries under /usr/X11R6/lib since it is seen to be an X11
> application.  However, if a user configures and builds from source,
> the default installation prefix puts the libraries in /usr/local/lib.
> Does your patch increase the risk that the wrong shared library will
> be used (searching /usr/X11R6/lib before /usr/local/lib)?
> 
This doesn't actually effect the searching of libraries at all (from a
libtool point of view), the only thing this variable is used for inside
ltmain.sh is to decide whether to RPATH or not.

I deliberately put /usr/X11R6/lib before /usr/local/lib because that's
consistent with the ld.so.conf of every Linux distro I could get my
hands on.

It could increase the likely-hood on the basis that the libraries aren't
RPATHed anymore, but that's the same situation as /usr/lib, and I think
on Linux these should be in that game too.

Scott
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