FreeTDS Development Group

[Robert Boehne <robertb AT trdlnk.com>]

Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 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.
>
> christo
Yes, relative run paths are bad, very bad.  However they are required to 
run 'make check' without first installing, and that is the only time the 
libraries have relative run paths.  When they are installed they will be 
re-linked with different runpaths.

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Robert Boehne  ~ Snake Engineer ext: 2170