On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 11:31:50PM +0000, Tim Bunce wrote: > the LD_RUN_PATH=foo in the makefile is only exported into the > environment if there's already an env var with the same name defined. > Sigh. > > For gnu make we could add a line that says > > export LD_RUN_PATH > > but I don't know how portable that is to other makes. Can people with > non-gnu make programs let me know if that's valid as a line in a makefile?
Ping! Can people with non-gnu makes give this a go? Warnings are okay, but a fatal error would be bad. > > course, forcing it thru using > > > > -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/oracle/xe/... > > > > works but I assume it might break non-Linux (non-gcc) installations. > > It would, sadly, but at least we know when we're dealing with gcc > so can add it only in that case. > > Is that option syntax valid for gcc v2.x? Can someone with gcc v2 check? Ping! Tim.