On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 01:24:41PM -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:16:26AM -0800, Danek Duvall wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:58:15PM -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote: > > > I don't follow. > > > > I could be completely misunderstanding what Laca meant, but what I took > > from his statement was that: > > You did misunderstand :)
Okay. > > - if there *is* a .la file given to libtool, it will extract from it the > > correct runpaths to insert into the executables it creates, and if one > > of those paths is /usr/lib, it will be skipped. > > That'd be great, but it'd also be wrong. Why should a dependency's > runpath have anything to do with the consumer's runpath? > It doesn't, but as I understood it, the "runpath" in the .la file was not input to the corresponding .so file's runpath, but to that of its consumers. Danek
