Fwd: Re: Fix for --as-needed

[David Faure]

On Monday 22 November 2004 14:44, Michael Matz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 
> > My solution consists in:
> > 1) adding the --enable-new-dtags flag to the linker, if supported. This 
> > makes GNU ld emit RUNPATH directives as well as RPATH. The consequence is 
> > twofold:
> > 	a) RPATH is ignored
> > 	b) RUNPATH is overrideable by LD_LIBRARY_PATH at run-time
> > 
> > 2) making libtool's stub script use LD_LIBRARY_PATH as well as relinking. 
> 
> This should do no harm.  It changes a bit the way how you can call the 
> lt-* binary.  After calling the script once it was self-contained (i.e. 
> contained all relevant RPATHs), so it was possible to call the lt-* binary 
> directly.  Now you really have to go through the script for setting 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Ouch, that means no more "gdb .libs/lt-foobar core.12345" then...
Well, I guess a "make install" (of the libs) makes it work, since the installed libs 
will then match the ones used by .libs/lt-foobar.

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