Re: Using libtool together with the ${ORIGIN} soname variable

[Simon Richter]

Hi,

> However, I need these plugins to be in the same directory as where the main 
> executable resides, and I cannot install them into one of the $blah/lib 
> paths or add the current path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

This is a bad idea. Most likely, your program will end up in /usr/bin or
/usr/local/bin, and you probably don't want your plugins to be in the
$PATH. You really want .../lib/<package>/plugins, aka
$(pkglibdir)/plugins . Trust me, I know what I'm doing.

> When I try to specify this soname using libtool (adding it to the LDFLAGS 
> primary, eg. -Wl,-soname -Wl,{ORIGIN}/mylibname.so) it gets overridden by 
> the libtool script, which also uses it to set the so name.

The path should not be part of the soname. Actually, the soname is never
used for plugins (it is taken as the name the executable wants to load
at link time).

   Simon

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