On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:33:36AM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
Clemens Fruhwirth wrote:
Libtool's fondness for cooking RPATH into binaries makes it very difficult to deal with, because it's quite common for those binaries to get installed and distributed, RPATH and all. RPATH should only be used by a user who knows they have a large-calibre weapon pointed at their foot.
Did I understand that correctly that you don't want to see binaries with rpath's pointing to install directories such as /usr/lib/gcc-6.6?
That's right.
So, this forces us to use a wrapper in all cases.
Not necessarily. Many systems provide a global mechanism to manage the paths that ld.so searches for shared objects. This is the standard on Linux, for example (/etc/ld.so.conf). For systems that don't provide this mechanism, one possibility would be to provide an option that cooks the rpath in.
Or better yet, put them directly in one of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH dirs. $PREFIX/lib/ghc-$VERSION is a relic of the static library system and IMO shouldn't be duplicated. Stefan