Re: [gentoo-user] Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Andrea Conti wrote: > Pardon me, but in my opinion if you're asking this kind of questions, > porting the Gentoo build system (or even any non-trivial application > without upstream support) to a different and basically unsupported > environment is way beyond what you can manage with your curre

Re: [gentoo-user] Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-09 Thread Al
Ciao Andrea, > Pardon me, but in my opinion if you're asking this kind of questions, > porting the Gentoo build system (or even any non-trivial application > without upstream support) to a different and basically unsupported > environment is way beyond what you can manage with your current level o

Re: [gentoo-user] Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-09 Thread Andrea Conti
> I still try to understand the relation of shared libraries and dynamic > libraries. I read that dynamic libraries are linked at runtime. I also > read, that you can dynamically link againgst a shared as well as > against a normal library. Pardon me, but in my opinion if you're asking this kind o

[gentoo-user] Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-06 Thread Al
Hello, I looked into many ebuilds, but didn't come to a final conclusion yet. I am rather confused. How does a program in Gentoo know, where to look for shared libraries? Is this compiled into the programes by means of rpath? Does Gentoo set up a general search path for libraries? Does this ra