Re: How to disable relink on install?

[Alex Hornby]

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 16:42, Mike Hepburn wrote:
> Alex,
> 
> i found this description on the web -:
> 
> "Because the executable that libtool creates (.libs/ld-new) is meant to
> be installed, but when you want to run it in the build directory you
> want to make sure that it finds the shared libraries in the build
> directory, not the ones that may be installed earlier.  To achieve this,
> libtool relinks the binary with a special set of --rpath options
> pointing into the build directory.  This is done everytime the actual
> binary is rebuilt.  There is an option to libtool
> (--disable-fast-install) that tells it to do the relinking at install
> time, and the binary in the build directory is built with the
> appropriate --rpath options in the first place.  All this is
> required because --rpath has precedence over LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  On
> systems were it doesn't libtool just uses LD_LIBRARY_PATH to achieve the
> same effect."
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Mike
> 

That's not what I want though - its almost as if I've got
--disable-fast-install on by default.

Perhaps "fast-install=needless" is what I want... I'll give that a try.

Alex.