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Re: forestalling GNU incompatibility - proposal for binary relative dynamic linking
- From: Edward Peschko <esp5 at pge dot com>
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:16:36 -0800
- Subject: Re: forestalling GNU incompatibility - proposal for binary relative dynamic linking
- References: <20050124222449.GB16078@venus> <20050124231047.GC29545@redhat.com>
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 03:10:47PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:24:49PM -0800, Edward Peschko wrote:
> > What I'd like to do is be able to set up my LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> > so that I can reference it from the point of view of the
> > *executable*:
> >
> > setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH "*/../lib:....."
> >
> > Here, read "* == full path of dirname of executable".
>
> See -Wl,-rpath,'$ORIGIN/../lib/'
>
>
> r~
cool.. any chance for some syntactic sugar so me (and other
users/vendors) wouldn't need to change any of their build scripts
and compilation processes?
The only thing I would see as a drawback would be backwards compatibility,
but how often do people have directories named '*'?
Ed