Re: Trying to get libtool not to add -rpath, since libs are only in a staging directory

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2014, Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
> > I don't think that linking against libraries in DESTDIR is portable. DESTDIR
> > should be considered an install/copy-only option to support packaging.
>
> Well, in my use case I'm often/usually cross compiling so having the
> final libraries installed under /usr/lib is not really an option... It
> seems that lt_cv_sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec solved the issue for me,
> but I'm not 100% positive how portable that is, if you can think of
> some reasons why this is not a good fix and if there's a cleaner way
> to accomplish this then please let me know.

This solves the problem (automatic addition of -rpath) caused by 
libtool on GNU/Linux.  It is not truely portable since it can not 
solve automatic tool behavior on other operating systems.

Bob
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