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

[Richard Henderson <rth@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:52:52AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   other options include working with /etc/ld.so.conf on the new
> system, of course, or using LD_LIBRARY_PATH (although there are
> numerous online essays about why this is a bad idea.)

Are you aware that DT_RPATH may contain "$ORIGIN" which is
the directory in which the executable lives?  Thus if you 
wanted to package stuff like

	/opt/foo/bin/myapp
	/opt/foo/lib/mylib1.so
	/opt/foo/lib/mylib2.so

you can do -Wl,-rpath,'$ORIGIN/../lib'.



r~