Hi Reuben,
> doc/relocatable.texi contains the following text:
>
>
> > Also, installation with
> > @option{--enable-relocatable} might not work on OpenBSD, when the
> > package contains shared libraries and libtool versions 1.5.xx are used.
> >
>
> I checked, and the last version of OpenBSD to ship with libtool 1.5 was
> 5.0, support for which ended in November 2012. Perhaps this text can
> therefore be removed?
This text was written (see 'git annotate doc/relocatable.texi') in 2007,
that is, one year before libtool 2.2 was released. It was based on a
prediction about how libtool versions 2.x would behave [1]. Have you
verified that this prediction has come true?
Thanks for looking into this!
I believe the prediction has come true; from libtool's NEWS for version 2.1b:
- On (AIX?,) HP-UX, and OpenBSD, hardcoding has been changed to prefer
rpath over absolute dependent library names. This fixes DESTDIR
installs, among others, on the non-HP-UX/PA systems.