Re: Problem with -R and external libraries

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Todd Gamblin wrote on Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 09:40:37PM CEST:
> I'm having trouble getting -R to work as advertised.  From the
> libtool docs:
> 
> >-R libdir
> >If output-file is a program, add libdir to its run-time path. If
> >output-file is a library, add -Rlibdir to its dependency_libs, so
> >that, whenever the library is linked into a program, libdir will
> >be added to its run-time path.
> 
> However, when I link libraries that were built with -R into
> executables, it doesn't look like rpath is getting set properly.

This kooks like a Libtool bug to me.  Especially looking at the output
of
  make check-local \
       TESTSUITEFLAGS='-k "Runpath in libtool library files" -v -d -x'

I vaguely remember being there before; possibly the obvious fix caused
some other problems, need to look.

Thanks,
Ralf