The failure currently observed is an inability to load the libstd library in dynamic builds. When the RPATH makefile variable was introduced, it was decided that it was a cleaner way to provide the executables with a location for the library than the alternative. That alternative is to have some complex logic to determine whether the path should be prepended to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64, SHLIBPATH, DYLDPATH, or some other platform-dependent environment variable.
--Andrew Black Eric Lemings wrote: > > Could someone give an example of the failures described by this issue? > In particular, I'm not sure the path should be embedded in the > executables and the Makefiles should invoke the executables with the > appropriate runtime library search paths. > > Thanks, > Brad. > >
