Re: multiple rpath

[F J Franklin]

> Why do you want multiple -rpath options? Here's the definition of
> -rpath:
> `-rpath LIBDIR'
>      If OUTPUT-FILE is a library, it will eventually be installed in
>      LIBDIR.  If OUTPUT-FILE is a program, add LIBDIR to the run-time
>      path of the program.

I know. In fact, what I really want to do is even more bizarre, because
it's not an absolute path.

On darwin it's possible to define the install name of the library as a
relative path; further, it can be defined relative to the loading
application, as:

-install_name @executable_path/etc.

What I want to be able to do is:

MyFramework_LTLIBRARIES = libMy.la

libMy_la_LDFLAGS = -rpath @executable_path/../Frameworks/MyFramework

Ignoring for the moment the issue of relative rpaths, which is easy enough
to fix for this special case, we get to my original query: how best to
override automake's specification of rpath...

Of course, the other route is to add a special new command line option for
libtool, but that seems a little extreme.

Regards, Frank

Francis James Franklin
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