On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 10:54:20PM +0000, Paul Cager wrote: > I'm packaging AFNIX which provides four or five executables and a bunch > of shared objects that the executables use. Since the SOs are not likely > to be of use to anything except the AFNIX system itself, I intend to > install the SOs in /usr/lib/afnix/*.so. I'm a newbie as far as SOs are > concerned, so can I ask a fairly basic question?
> How do I link the program so that the end-user does not have to set > LD_LIBRARY_PATH? Is this a job for the "--rpath" ld parameter, or is > there a better way? You would use -rpath for this, yes. But please note that installing libraries in private directories is discouraged by policy in any case. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
