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<<On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 04:03:22 -0400 (EDT), "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> said:

> The ELF standard allows one to compile search paths for libraries into
> your ELF object.  One might ask why we're not using that.

Because the compilation process (for ports/packages in particular) has
no a priori knowledge of where the libraries in question will be
located on the target system.  We try to build binaries that are as
free as possible from assumptions about how the filesystem structure
is arranged for optional add-on software.

-GAWollman


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