[RFC] sysroot and dynamic libraries

[Alan Modra]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 06:32:48PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> My libc and other system libraries are indeed in the sysroot, so no problem 
> there.  However hypothetically, I build my application (which includes 
> several dynamic libraries with their own DT_NEEDED) outside of the sysroot 
> and pass -L so the linker can find them.  It sounds like you are saying 
> that with your change, the dependencies of libraries outside of the sysroot 
> may no longer be found and I will now get linker errors unless I manually 
> specify *all* needed libraries.

Any dependency of dynamic libraries outside the sysroot are not found
at the moment, unless you use --rpath or --rpath-link.  -L doesn't
affect the DT_NEEDED search..

However, I guess ignoring -L for shared libraries is a little too
rude.  I'll have to try something different.  Looking first for
DT_NEEDED dependencies in the same dir as the library would fix the
particular problem I'm having.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM