FreeTDS Development Group

[Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 06:40:45PM +0200, Merijn Broeren wrote:
> 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.

> 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.

<cough> LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't scale because, with a well-integrated
system and proper library versioning, it doesn't need to.

And libtool's rpath fetish is a royal pain for those of us who do work on
such systems, because it tends to get a little confused between
installing at package build time, and installing on a user's system.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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