cmake cvs supports chrpath -> much faster relinking

Stephan Kulow coolo at kde.org
Wed Dec 19 11:12:17 CET 2007


Am Mittwoch 19 Dezember 2007 schrieb David Faure:
> On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just committed support for chrpath to cmake cvs.
> > chrpath can modify the RPATH inside an ELF file. This means that on make
> > install, the executables don't have to be actually linked again, but
> > instead they are installed as they are and then chrpath is run on them.
> > This reduces this additional relinking time almost to zero.
> >
> > To use it you need:
> > current kdesupport (-> so chrpath gets installed)
> > current cmake cvs
>
> Funny; if cmake cvs can call chrpath, why isn't chrpath part of cmake?

That question applies to binutils and gcc too - it should only be required to 
install cmake, nothing else, to build KDE ;-)

Greetings, Stephan


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