Thank you for information. Alex
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de>wrote: > Hello, > > * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, May 31, 2010 at 05:53:26PM CEST: > > AFAIK Linux binaries/libraries can be built in the build tree with > > no hardcoded references to other objects in the build tree, so they > > can always be copied into the install tree and continue working > > (although libtool has to wrap build tree binaries in a script to > > make sure that running them there picks up build tree libraries in > > preference to install tree libraries). > > Yes. While the above is true, there is another factor that comes into > play on GNU/Linux systems: we exploit the fact that we can hard-code > the paths to uninstalled deplibs in order to start uninstalled programs > without a wrapper script (I think). That however means that uninstalled > libraries or programs with uninstalled dependencies will get relinked. > > Similar reasoning applies to a couple of other systems IIRC. Also, some > other systems beside HP-UX have the problem of hard-coding uninstalled > paths by default. > > Cheers, > Ralf >
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