On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 01:53:26PM +0600, Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov wrote: > On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Olivier Chapuis wrote: > > > - if shared is enabled (and the system support shared lib) fvwm > > will build and install a sharable library libfvwm.so-version and > > fvwm2 and the modules will be dynamically linked to this library. > > Of course the system must be able to perform the dynamic link > > (e.g., for Linux either updating /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig > > or adding the directory "lib" directory in LD_LIBRARY_PATH after > > the install). > > ELF allows to embed this directory into the binary, so there's no > need to touch either ld.so.conf or LD_LIBRARY_PATH [1]. This is achieved > with "-rpath" option to the linker. According to Linux's ld(1), Solaris > also supports this feature, and SunOS additionaly requires "-rpath-link". > I've checked DEC OSF1 4.0 and IRIX 6.5, and both of them do support > "-rpath". In OpenBSD this switch is called "-R", but at least in 2.7 > "-rpath" is also accepted for compatibility with GNU ld. > >
Yes, thanks for the tip. If we implement shared lib we may use this and I hope that libtool resolves all system dependent stuff (it is one of the reason of its existence). Olivier -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
