On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 23:12, Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@xxxxxx> wrote: > I'm not sure I understand this paragraph. I'll try to be a bit clearer. One of our libraries liblalframe depends on libframe, on our systems libframe is usually installed in /opt/lscsoft/libframe, during the configuration process of liblalframe the location of libframe is determined using either pkg-config or the FRAME_CFLAGS and FRAME_LIBS environment variables. libframe also includes an environment setup script with sets PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point to the appropriate location so that the libraries can be found. However some of out users do not like setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH and relay on the rpath linked into the binary to locate the library, i.e.: $ ldd FrCheck libFrame.so.1 => /opt/lscsoft/libframe/lib64/libFrame.so.1 (0x00002b2754b3b000) libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00000036b2600000) libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00000036b2200000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00000036b1e00000) $ in the code from the the AC_CHECK_IFELSE the rpath for the libFrame.so.1 library doesn't seem to be embedded into the binary, so as this library is not present in LD_LIBRARY_PATH it can't be found when run and the test fails: ./conftest: error while loading shared libraries: libFrame.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Is that clearer? >> Is there a way that the rpaths can be embedded into the test code, or >> is there a way that I can rework this test to support these users? > > Well, things should work with > ./configure LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath,/foo/bar > > or a platform-specific variation thereof. If that's not what was meant, > then please show an example invocation that fails, including setup and > relevant config.log parts, please. Thats the workaround that I've recommended they use (or setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH) but, we have users on both Linux and Macs which have slightly different versions so the above isn't a catch all solution. Is there a way the appropriate platform-specific options can be added automatically? Cheers Adam _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf