cmake cvs supports chrpath -> much faster relinking

[David Faure]

On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 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 ;-)

Hmm, OK... chrpath can also be useful to people not using cmake, I see.

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