cmake and RPATH

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Thu Feb 16 16:21:58 CET 2006


Thiago Macieira wrote:
> So, let me repeat: in order to support proper build, cmake has to either:
> 1) enable --enable-new-dtags
> or
> 2) relink
> 
> There is no other solution that I can see. And also note that, since 
> option #1 may not be available in all platforms, cmake has to support 
> option #2 anyways. 
> 
> Which binary cmake chooses to relink, that's its own choice. It could 
> relink the binary it install or it could relink the one you try to run 
> before installing. It could also have a "developer mode" in which it will 
> build both.

FYI, I've been working on an implementation in CMake to relink targets 
with an install-tree RPATH before installing.  This is needed even if 
you don't want any RPATH in the install tree to remove the RPATH that 
points to the build tree.

-Brad


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