Re: how do you link to a different lib location at run time?

[Jan Kratochvil <rcpt-fedora-tools-list.AT.redhat.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:52:52 +0100, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
...
>   1) creating some shared libs in a temporary location
>   2) compiling some executables which will link to those libs
>      at run time
> 
> however, once the above is done, both the executables and the shared
> libs will be installed on a totally separate system, in different
> locations.

Did you consider libtool(1)? It handles this correctly on the build system
before you do "make install". After "make install" (to $DESTDIR subdirectory)
the resulting binaries need to be used on their final locations.
libtool(1) handles it by binaries wrapping scripts and general relinking.

...
>   other options include working with /etc/ld.so.conf on the new
> system, of course,

/etc/ld.so.conf.d/* is a well packagable solution.


Regards,
Lace