Thanks Bert. This is indeed exactly the same issue I am facing. I would like the -rpath option to be added to all programs that use my .la library with the -R flag in dependency_libs, but that is not happening. As far as I understand, we agree that the documentation says that an -R flag in .la lib should result in the appropriate -rpath flags to the linker when a program linking to that library is compiled. So the patch in your email thread does the trick? The solution seems very simple.
Regards, Marcin On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Bert Wesarg <bert.wes...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Marcin Zalewski > <marcin.zalew...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello. >> >> I have a contrib jemalloc library in my project that is not being >> built using libtool. When I build my libtool library, I add this to >> the link line: >> >> -ljemalloc -R/rpath/to/jemalloc >> >> This works fine, and my .la file includes: >> >> dependency_libs=' -R/rpath/to/jemalloc -ljemalloc' >> >> However, when I link my programs with the .la file, I do not get rpath >> on the liker line, which causes a run-time failure when the program is >> run. Am I using the -R option correctly? I was hoping that I could >> make it a dependency in my .la file and not have to worry about it. >> The documentation for -R says: >> >> If output-file is a program, add libdir to its run-time path. If >> output-file is a library, add -Rlibdir to its dependency_libs, so >> that, whenever the library is linked into a program, libdir will be >> added to its run-time path. >> >> As far as I understood this, once my library has this dependency, the >> rpath will be added to any program that links to my library, but that >> is not happening. > > this is a known problem, though it seems that it is not considered as > one by the libtool team: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2011-11/msg00010.html > > Bert > >> >> Any help would be appreciated, >> -m _______________________________________________ https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool