Re: multilib dirs and ld.so

[Peter O'Gorman]

On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 09:30 -0500, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> Hi,
> Albert pointed out to me yesterday that while, with 1.5.24 we now add
> the correct directories to sys_lib_search_path_spec, they do not get
> added to sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec, resulting in libtool putting, for
> example, /usr/lib64 in RPATH.
> 
> Red Hat have a patch for this, but it is specific to redhat:
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-commits/2007-July/msg04567.html
> 
> So, it looks like we need to revisit the methods of calculating
> sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec in a distro independent fashion.
> 
> The proposals so far:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2007-06/msg00025.html
> 
> The only worries I have with Olly's proposal are that it can be slow
> (but it is only run once at configure time, so hmm) and that I am not
> convinced that it outputs the directories in the order that ld.so
> searches.

Here is yet another alternative.

Feedback appreciated.

Peter

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