Re: Shared library defines a RPATH

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 05:50:50PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Richard Atterer wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 02:12:01PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > Still, it breaks cross-compilation (which is not a very important
> > > point for most people, but...),
> > 
> > In what way does it break cross-compilation?
> 
> It may point to the wrong place in the target machine,

DT_RPATH must be ignore for shared objects, but not for executables.  At
least this is what I gathered from reading the ELF standard.

Have you actually experienced this?  I have never tried it, so I don't know.

Thanks,
Marcus

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