RFC: Alternate names for ELF substitution sequences

[Tristan Gingold]

On Oct 13, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> I recently had to build GDB with an rpath containing "$ORIGIN" (which
> has magic significance to the dynamic loader).  This involved a
> ludicrous and unpredictable number of backslashes.
>
> How can we make this easier?  For instance, is there a character or
> sequence we are willing to sacrifice from rpaths that isn't so
> shell-active?  Perhaps "={": -rpath "={ORIGIN}" -> "${ORIGIN}".

For the record, darwin use '@/' instead of '$ORIGIN/'.  Maybe ld can  
automatically translates
@/ to $ORIGIN.

Tristan.