Re: TODO

[Howard Chu]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 04:34:49PM CET:

> > Also, what do we do about -rpath?  We still need to encode the
> > runtime path to even the dropped deplib directories so that the
> > same library we linked with is picked up at runtime.

> Erm, is this not handled in the depending library? (I have no idea,
> really, but I hoped this would be so.)

This is definitely a sticky problem. We do builds that "install" to a 
path that is different from their actual, final destination. I'm finding 
that the rpath handling at various stages of a build tries to be too 
smart for its own good. E.g., I have a build tree in my home directory 
for a number of packages in ~/BLD, the ultimate destination is /opt/foo, 
and everything is staged into ~/BLD/opt/foo. For files in the resulting 
package that contain embedded RPATH/RUNPATHs, I only want "/opt/foo" 
present in the binary, but I find a lot of instances of 
"/home/hyc/BLD/opt/foo" that I have to squash by manually relinking.
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