RUNPATH truncated at some point during loading of shared object

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:16:59PM -0400, Poor Yorick wrote:
> ldd shows that a certain shared object on my system can not find one
> of its dependencies.  The output of LD_DEBUG=libs shows that RUNPATH
> initially contains four colon-separated paths, but after finding the
> first four dependencies, RUNPATH suddenly contains only the first
> two of its original four paths.  Could anyone please explain why the
> value of RUNPATH might be changing while loading is in progress?

This is the difference between RPATH and RUNPATH.  RUNPATH only
affects searches requested by the object containing the tag.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery