Re: To clarify a few things

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Rafał Mużyło wrote on Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 11:31:53PM CEST:
> [...] but still don't want to have hardcoded paths in the library (as
> I'm setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH in .bash_profile anyway).
> So is there any sane way of doing this, short of manually adding a
> modified AC_LIBTOOL_SYS_DYNAMIC_LINKER macro to every compiled package.

After running configure, before running make, patch the libtool script
to add your path to the runtime search path.  Something like (untested!)

  sed '/^sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec/s/"$/'" $your_path"'"/' < libtool \
    > tlibtool
  mv -f tlibtool libtool

But note that this does not change libltdl's LT_DLSEARCH_PATH.

Or provide a patch (that works for all systems) that allows the user to
override independently sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec in the libtool script,
and LT_DLSEARCH_PATH for libltdl, and documents this.  If you're going
to contribute to GNU software, you'll need a copyright assignment (more
off-list if you're interested).

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ralf