Locating shared libraries

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

Clemens Fruhwirth wrote:

>> Libtool's fondness for cooking RPATH into binaries makes it very 
>> difficult to deal with, because it's quite common for those binaries to 
>> get installed and distributed, RPATH and all.  RPATH should only be used 
>> by a user who knows they have a large-calibre weapon pointed at their foot.
> 
> Did I understand that correctly that you don't want to see binaries
> with rpath's pointing to install directories such as /usr/lib/gcc-6.6?

That's right.

> So, this forces us to use a wrapper in all cases.

Not necessarily.  Many systems provide a global mechanism to manage the 
paths that ld.so searches for shared objects.  This is the standard on 
Linux, for example (/etc/ld.so.conf).  For systems that don't provide 
this mechanism, one possibility would be to provide an option that cooks 
the rpath in.

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