FreeTDS Development Group

[christos AT zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)]

On Feb 5, 10:28am, robertb AT trdlnk.com (Robert Boehne) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: [freetds] make check on solaris failed to compile, had to edi

| When "make check" is executed, Libtool needs to run the uninstalled 
| libraries,
| which is why there is some relative-rpath magic.  If you're thinking 
| that libtool
| is the culprit, the first thing to do is to upgrade the version of 
| libtool you're
| using when you generate 'configure' - 1.5.26 is nearly a year old, and 
| freetds
| should be using that or something in the 2.x series.

I am not a big supporter of relative run paths, because they can
be forgotten and can cause security issues on a variety of OS's
whose dynamic linker does not perform the appropriate tests. I
would have hoped that libtool could achieve the same effect by
setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH/LD_RUN_PATH.  Anyway perhaps a later version
might work better, so we should switch to that first before making
any changes.

christos