forestalling GNU incompatibility - proposal for binary relative dynamic linking

[Edward Peschko]

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