On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:18:11AM +0000, Harlan Stenn wrote: > I thought he was ssaying that if /bin/ls uses RPATH then configure > should use RPATH, too.
That's right - the question was how to know whether or not a system uses rpath without reinventing libtool. In fact choosing some binary we know exists outside of /bin /sbin might be better, e.g., sed. Cheers, Patrick