Use executable's RPATH in looking up library searching path.

[Allan Clark]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:45, Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag at dottedmag.net>wrote:

>
> Twas brillig at 10:40:06 23.09.2011 UTC-04 when vapier at gentoo.org did gyre
> and gimble:
>
>  MF> i don't see any justification to back up this statement other than
>  MF> "this is what glibc does".  i'm honestly not too concerned by that
>  MF> as there are places already we deviate from glibc behavior by
>  MF> design.  what i do want to know is what the ELF spec says.  could
>  MF> you look that up (i dont have a copy off hand and the LF is down
>  MF> still) ?
>
> As a matter of anecdote, BSD linkers don't use executable's RPATH in
> this situation.
>

config option?

As a past embedded guy, I like the idea of this being around as a way to fix
dependency issues based on how developers are accustomed to coding on common
platforms.

Allan

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