Re: Wait, isn't rpath supposed to be set automagically?

[Peter Johansson]

Hi Miles,

On 2/26/12 9:47 PM, Miles Bader wrote:
> But ... it doesn't seem to.  Is something broken, is there an option I
> should set... or?
On which system do you experience this? I've seen this problem on Fedora 
and the problem was that the linker search path and the dynamic loader 
search path were different. IIUC libtool sets -rpath if a used library 
is outside linker path.

The solution for me was to include '/usr/local/lib' in '/etc/ld.so.conf' 
as suggested here 
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html.

One could argue that Libtool is broken here as it uses an inaccurate 
mechanism to decide whether  -rpath should be set, but I've seen Libtool 
maintainers saying that this only happens on severely broken systems (on 
which linker search path and dynamic loader search path).

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Peter