Re: gEDA: gschem rpath autoconf test

[Dan McMahill <dan-at-NOSPAMmcmahill_dot_net>]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:58:25PM -0500, Ales Hvezda wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> >I noticed that gschem's configure script won't set the required
> >-Rpath or -Wl,--rpath, or whatever flags needed to set the runtime
> >path to the X11 libraries.  The attached patch adds that check
> >and it seems to work fine.  Without this, you have to
> >manually set LDFLAGS in your configure environmnet or set LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> >on solaris and other os's.
> >
> >Anyone see any problems with this?
> 	
> 	I have no problem with this, as long as this doesn't force
> rpath on other platforms where it is discouraged.  
> 

where is it discouraged?  Does linux typically put /usr/X11R6/lib
into gcc's default runtime path?

What would be the appropriate way to turn on/off the rpath stuff?
There could be an --enable-rpath/--disable-rpath or it could be
a switch based on OS, although I'm not a fan of the latter.

-Dan

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