On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 09:50:18PM -0800, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Except if they are private objects. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
