Hi Brian, On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:12:58AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > > b) Why the heck does it try to relink libldap at all? > > > > > Short answer: libtool 1,4 has issues with DESTDIR. > > > > We have patches to help, libtool 1.5 appears to fix all the problems but > > introduces a whole new additional world of pain[0]. > > At one point in time it was because libtool wanted the compiled > executable in the source tree to work. It did this by adding a -rpath to > use the compiled version of the library in the source directory. > > However, it obviously isn't good to install a binary on the computer > with an -rpath that points to the source directory tree. So libtool > would relink it with no -rpath on the install phase. This is what I inferred from the actions of libtool as well. But: On Linux you don't need this -rpath hack. You can specify LD_LIBRARY_PATH. So if other broken architectures need this trick why is it used on Linux? But I should not argue this here, I guess this is the wrong forum :) Greetings Torsten
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