Problematic linking between glibc and shared libgcc

David Edelsohn dje@watson.ibm.com
Wed Feb 21 06:44:00 GMT 2001


>>>>> Alexandre Oliva writes:

Alexandre> This is not true.  If you do move stuff, you may have to set
Alexandre> LD_LIBRARY_PATH so that the moved libraries are still found, but
Alexandre> that's all.  I.e., it's no worse than having to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Alexandre> always, and, in the general case, it's better, because you don't have
Alexandre> to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH at all.

	I disagree with this slightly.  There is the obscure case where
the -rpath value points to a filesystem which no longer exists or has
mounting problems.  In that example, the invalid -rpath value can cause
severe performance problems and essentially hang all applications
depending on the shared library until a timeout occurs.

David



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