Re: [TCLUG:23344] what's '--rpath'?

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> 
> galeon (galeon.sourceforge.net -- a cool mozilla-based web browser) crashes
> on a certain machine, while starting.
> so I'm trying to compile one from source, hoping to fix library problems.
> however, while trying to compile the galeon src.rpm, I get the following errors:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: warning: libplds4.so, needed by
> /usr/lib/mozilla/libgtkembedmoz.so, n
> ot found (try using --rpath)
> /usr/bin/ld: warning: libplc4.so, needed by
> /usr/lib/mozilla/libgtkembedmoz.so, no
> t found (try using --rpath)
> /usr/bin/ld: warning: libnspr4.so, needed by
> /usr/lib/mozilla/libgtkembedmoz.so, n
> ot found (try using --rpath)
> 
> however:
> [admin@iron ~]$ locate libplds4.so
> /usr/lib/mozilla/libplds4.so
> 
> what the heck is --rpath, and how do I use it?

It's a way of telling executables where to look for their libraries. 
It's a link-time argument to the `ld' program, AFAICT..  It's probably
just easier to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH or LD_RUN_PATH environment
variables.  `man ld' for (a little) more info.

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