Re: --rpath on 1.7.8

[moseley]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:29:23AM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 03:20, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:01:17PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > > Could you do './libtool --version' from the software's source directory
> > > for me...  I strongly suspect you've got a Debian libtool there <g>
> > 
> > Yes, that's the right guess.
> > 
> > ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.5.0a (1.1220.2.33 2003/09/29 11:43:50) Debian: 
> > 103 $
> > 
> The developer of that piece of software was obviously using Debian
> unstable (Rev 103 is libtool_1.5-4); that added /usr/X11R6/lib and
> /usr/local/lib to the assumed library paths.

By assumed library paths does that mean the paths that the system knows 
about and therefore do not need to be included as rpath settings when 
linking?

Is there a problem with always using -rpath when linking?  I.e. was 
adding /usr/local/lib to the binary's paths causing a problem before?

Thanks,

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Bill Moseley
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