Re: $ORIGIN in RPATHs

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Oct 10, 2000, Ganesan Rajagopal <address@hidden> wrote:

> While we are on this topic, how about modifying libtool to add a
> $ORIGIN in a program RPATH instead of an hardcoded path if
> possible? This case should be trivial when libdir and bindir are
> subdirectories of prefix.

This would require libtool to know the directory in which a program is
going to be installed.  This information isn't available when the
program is linked.

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