Re: RFE: allow $ORIGIN in the run-path

[Robert Boehne]

Laszlo PETER wrote:
> 
> Hi libtool developers,
> 
> This is not really a bug, it's more an RFE:
> Libtool doesn't support creating relocatable binaries on Solaris.
> 
> On Solaris you can have Dynamic String Tokens in the run-path.
> These are replaced with their values by the runtime linker.
> Such a Dynamic String Token is $ORIGIN, which is replaced
> with the name of the directory where the object was loaded from.
> 
> So for example a package that installs its shared libraries
> into <prefix>/lib and the executables into <prefix>/bin could
> use '$ORIGIN/../lib' in the run-path. This would make the package
> relocatable, since it wouldn't depend on absolute paths.
> 
> Libtool only allows absolute path names in the run-path and exits
> with an error message if '$ORIGIN' is used.
> 
> To create relocatable binaries I comment out the test for absolute
> path names in libtool but I think a general solution would be
> beneficial for others too.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Laca

Can you escape $ORIGIN/../lib in a way that would cause Libtool
to interpret it?

Rob

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