Re: Making rpath a bit more flexible

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Making rpath a bit more flexible
Date: 2004-10-12 06:56:14
Message-ID: 200410120856.14656.peter_e@gmx.net
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Am Montag, 11. Oktober 2004 22:31 schrieb Tom Lane:
> The problem of course is that we have no rpath pointing to the place
> where libperl.so lives. (Now that I look, the only reason this worked
> before was that I had /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE
> mentioned in /etc/ld.so.conf in my old installation.)

This is a bug in the operating system. It should be configured so that it can
find all libraries that it installs itself.

> What I would like to do about this is change the platform-specific
> makefiles to provide these macros in the form
> rpath = -Wl,-rpath,$(rpathdir)

I have no problem with that. But are there going to be cases where we need to
point to more than one library path?

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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