Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:16:36 -0800
From: Edward Peschko <esp5@pge.com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com,
       binutils@sources.redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: forestalling GNU incompatibility - proposal for binary relative dynamic linking
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On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 03:10:47PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:24:49PM -0800, Edward Peschko wrote:
> > What I'd like to do is be able to set up my LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
> > so that I can reference it from the point of view of the 
> > *executable*:
> > 
> > 	setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH   "*/../lib:....."
> > 
> > Here, read "* == full path of dirname of executable".
> 
> See -Wl,-rpath,'$ORIGIN/../lib/'
> 
> 
> r~

cool.. any chance for some syntactic sugar so me (and other 
users/vendors) wouldn't need to change any of their build scripts 
and compilation processes?

The only thing I would see as a drawback would be backwards compatibility,
but how often do people have directories named '*'?

Ed
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