Re: Shared libs (Was: Making Debian Packages from tar ball files)

[Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org>]

Just to follow up on this thread.

libtool uses -rpath when building with a *non-standard* prefix, but with prefix=/usr no
-rpath is used.  That means /usr/lib is not added to the binary, so the normal lib search
paths are used.  Just like one would expect.

> Now, here's the part that worries me:
> 
>   $ ldd usr/bin/swish-e | grep libsw
>         libswish-e.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libswish-e.so.2 (0x400fc000)
> 

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Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org