On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:59:35 +0200, Adrien Bustany <madcat@mymadcat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:38:40 +0100, Chris Wilson
> <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> > In order to handle installation into user directories, it is convenient
> > to encode the library location into the search path for the notmuch
> > executable. This is achieved for the GNU linker with the -rpath
> > argument.
> 
> I know that many distros (among them Fedora, see
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Beware_of_Rpath )
> discourage the use of rpath. Do you think it could be an option set at
> configure time (set rpath or not) ?

Right. Debian doesn't want this either.

Some of what I've wanted to do in "make install" to help with this:

  * Figure out the right way to run "ldconfig" from "make install"

  * Test if the runtime linker will be able to find the library, and if
    not print a message about setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or
    DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH).

Setting rpath with the option to prevent this might be possible too. But
we can't do this unconditionally.

-Carl

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