From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 06:58:22 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA26945 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 06:58:22 -0700 Received: from borris.khoros.unm.edu (borris.khoros.unm.edu [198.59.155.2]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA26938 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 06:58:20 -0700 Received: by borris.khoros.unm.edu (4.1/KHOROS/Feb 18 1994) id <9508161358.AA13431@borris.khoros.unm.edu>; Wed, 16 Aug 95 07:58:19 MDT Posted-Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 07:58:19 MDT Message-Id: <9508161358.AA13431@borris.khoros.unm.edu> From: steve@khoros.unm.edu (Steven Jorgensen) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 07:58:19 MDT X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: -rpath support? Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Under many commercial systems that support shared libraries, they offer an option on the ld command line called -rpath or -R to let you specify the directories to search for shared libraries at run time. I was wondering if some form of this capability will be added to FreeBSD's ld at some point in the future? And yes, I know about ldconfig, but not everyone that compiles software has root access, and setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH can get confusing for the average user for large software packages (like Khoros.. :) Any information appreciated. Steve -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Steven Jorgensen steve@khoral.com steve@kaos.com ------------------------------+---------------------------- Khoral Research Inc. | PHONE: (505) 837-6500 6001 Indian School, Suite 200 | FAX: (505) 881-3842 Albuquerque, NM 87110 | URL: http://www.khoral.com/ -----------------------------------------------------------