[Libreoffice] [PATCH] rpath / ... for extensions (and the case of PostgreSQL-SDBC)

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:03:24PM +0100, Fridrich Strba wrote:

> I would guess that maybe there would be a way to generally ask the
> extension manager to look for dependent libraries of the extensions in
> other place then URE/lib only.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH envvar? With GNU ld, it is the only one I see. MacOS X
has "@executable_path" which is *exactly* what we want in this
situation: It is replaced by the path to the directory containing the
*main* executable, not the path to the shared library; from reading
the manpage, GNU ld-linux has only $ORIGIN, which is the path to the
shared library (that is called @loader_path on MacOS X).

> I really don't like copying over libraries like this.

OTOH, even if we find a good way to handle "library load path" issue,
it still does not solve the problem of how the .oxt will work with a
LibreOffice compiled with --with-openldap, such as e.g. Debian's one.

> On 22/01/12 19:12, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 05:55:07PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:

>>> With respect to fdo#45090, that is the GNU/Linux dlopen() does not
>>> find libldap50.so when loading PostgreSQL-SDBC's
>>> postgresql-sdbc-impl.uno.so.

>>> Now that I think of it, only the copy solution will make it work with
>>> a LibreOffice compiled with --with-openldap, since that LibreOffice
>>> won't ship libldap50.so. But distros will hate that, so they need a
>>> way to disable that... I'd say do it only if LibreOffice is not
>>> configured to use its internal mozldap.

>> I'm thinking of something along the lines of the attached patch.

-- 
Lionel