FreeTDS Development Group

[Merijn Broeren <merijnb AT iloquent.com>]

Quoting Thompson, Bill D (London) (ThompBil AT exchange.uk.ml.com):
> Merjin,
> 
> Or you just make sure that the unixodbc/lib directory is in your
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

> You'll need it there anyway, at runtime.
> 

No. Read for instance:

http://www.visi.com/~barr/ldpath.html

Please join the civilised world. Look at my libtdsodbc.so :

ldd /dist/fsf/PROJ/freetds/0.60/lib/libtdsodbc.so
        libodbcinst.so.1 => /dist/fsf/unixodbc/2.2.3/lib/libodbcinst.so.1
        libsocket.so.1 =>        /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
        libnsl.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
        libc.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libc.so.1
        libdl.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
        libm.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libm.so.1
        libthread.so.1 =>        /usr/lib/libthread.so.1
        libmp.so.2 =>    /usr/lib/libmp.so.2
        /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise/lib/libc_psr.so.1

This is done by adding a rpath. libtools supports this just fine and
dandy. LD_LIBRARY_PATH just doesn't scale, you need to wrap your
programs in shell scripts if you want to do that, or descend into the
madness of gigantic paths, library version clashes etc.

Cheers,
-- 
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