From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 15 17:28:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09125 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 17:28:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA09120 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 17:28:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA05566; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 20:28:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 20:28:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Garrett Wollman cc: John Polstra , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF problems to occur In-Reply-To: <199808160014.UAA16120@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > Whats wrong with specifying the search path with the '-R' flag when the > > program is linked? > > The person doing the linking doesn't necessarily know where the > libraries are going to be installed. In the case of system binaries, they do know where the libraries will be installed. Other things have fiarly standard places to live (/usr/local/lib, /usr/X11/lib etc). If an end user does not like the defaults they are free to recompile the software in question. I would be interested in a utility that lets you edit the compiled in search paths. This would seem to be a far better solution than LD_LIBRARY_PATH. -- | Matthew N. Dodd |This space | '78 Datsun 280Z | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net |is for rent| '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message