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

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 10, 2001, Laszlo PETER <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.

The major issue I have with $ORIGIN is that I'm sure lots of packages
may end up using '-R $ORIGIN/../lib', but then, when I specify
--bindir and --libdir at configure time such that $libdir is not
accessible as $bindir/../lib, things may not work properly.  Of
course, libtool will keep on adding the installation rpath of the
library to the executable's search path, so it will work as long as
you don't move it.

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