Re: cvs commit: src/etc/defaults rc.conf

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 10:01:48AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >     The real problem here is that until the linker is changed to use rpaths
> >     by default, we are stuck with the pathing mechanism... we can't require
> >     that normal users use -rpath options in their compiles.
>
> Requiring -rpath is and was the default on a number of Unix platforms.
> The canonical exceptions are Linux and FreeBSD. That the former is
> clueless I don't have to say. The latter inherited it from a.out and
> never switched. I don't think it is a good base to reason upon given all
> the other clutches kept e.g. not using normal ELF naming for libraries
> etc.

Isn't it possible to have an implicit -rpath setting?  So for instance, if I link -L/usr/lib/foo -lfoo that the binary will get /usr/lib/foo as rpath (if libfoo was found there).

With this we could get away from the ld cache.

cheers
 simon

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