Re: linking problems on SL6

[Peter O'Gorman]

On 11/22/2011 11:36 PM, Adam Mercer wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 15:39, Peter O'Gorman<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > Glad it works around it. The problem is libtool brokenness, most vendors
> > patch around it in their packaged libtool, e.g.
> >
> > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=libtool.git;a=blob;f=libtool-2.2.10-rpath.patch;h=d0d6d82178642658e6aca5a28d36813158980ca3;hb=HEAD
>
> Is there any reason something like this isn't done in the source so
> vendors don't have to patch? Apart from it being a hack that is :-)

I'm not sure if we ever looked for what distros use what layout for 
multilibs, and how to detect them.

There was a patch somewere which was slow, but ended up correct, using 
ldconfig. I'll look for it again.

Peter