compiling xalan-c with -rpath?

[Tore Ferner]

Hello,

I am a newbie. The mailing list page says "detailed technical questions"
should go to this list rather than to the users list, so here I go:
I try to build xalan with rpath. I want to link it against libxerces-c
located in a directory not mentioned in /etc/ld.so.conf:
  $ls -la /opt/python/python2.1.3/lib/*xer*
    /opt/python/python2.1.3/lib/libxerces-c.so -> libxerces-c.so.23.0
    /opt/python/python2.1.3/lib/libxerces-c.so.23 -> libxerces-c.so.23.0
    /opt/python/python2.1.3/lib/libxerces-c.so.23.0
After building xalan, I get

  $ ldd lib/libxalan-c.so:

        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x4000f000)
NB! ==> libxerces-c.so.23 => not found
        libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x4005f000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40117000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x40139000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40141000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
I built xalan like this:

The obligatory environment variables:

XALANCROOT=/usr/local/src/xml-xalan/c
XERCESCROOT=/usr/local/src/xerces-c-src_2_3_0
Configuring:

  $ ./runConfigure -plinux -cgcc -xg++ \
   -z-I/opt/python/python2.1.3/include \
   -z-I/opt/python/python2.1.3/include/xercesc \
   -z-L/opt/python/python2.1.3/lib \
   -l-Wl,-rpath -l-Wl,/opt/python/python2.1.3/lib
Since a single 'make' after this didn't succeed, I also tried with flags:

  $ LD_RUN_PATH=" /opt/python/python2.1.3/lib " \
   LDFLAGS=" -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/opt/python/python2.1.3/lib " \
   make
That didn't help; I get the ldd listing above.

I use Debian "stable" with gcc/g++ 3.3 and GNU ld 2.11.90.0.8
from "testing".
Any help/links will be greatly appreciated!

Regards, Tore