On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:38:56AM -0700, Bryan Henderson wrote: > On my system, like most Linux systems, rpaths are not generally > appropriate. You're supposed to choose the search path at run time, > typically via /etc/ld.so.conf > and LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Having an rpath for the GTK library built into the > ethereal binary makes it and the GTK library not portable. And in my > case, the rpath happens to be wrong and leads to the wrong GTK library and > ethereal won't work at all. > > So why did the make file generate this rpath? Does it need fixing or did > I just do something wrong in configuring the build or installing the GTK > library? > > The make output shows that libtool is invoking the linker with the rpath > option.
Maybe it is getting rpath from one of the libraries Ethereal depends on. -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
