Best practices for setting -rpath in .pc files?

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Abdoulaye Walsimou GAYE <awg at embtoolkit.org> schrieb:

> >I maintain a library which (for testing and various other reasons)
> >people often want to install into directories not on their usual
> >library search path.
> 
> And when they cross compile, they also want to install them else where!

In this case you want to use a sysroot'ed toolchain and properly pass 
the $SYSROOT variable. Everything else is nothing but dirty hacks with 
great change of (sometimes even unnoticed) breaks - dont do that.

> >When they do this, is there any sense of whether it's reasonable to
> >include an -rpath flag (or a -Wl,-R flag, or a -R flag, or a
> >-Wl,-rpath flag as appropriate) in the .pc file?  Or is this a bad
> >idea for some reason?
> 
> rpath is bad in case of cross compile, and other reasons explained here [1]

A very bad. Unfortunately that's one of the things where libtool
tends to really phrack up things.

Dont use rpath, unless you're absolutely knowing what you're doing ;-p


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