On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > The page at <http://gcc.gnu.org/faq.html>, under “Dynamic linker is > unable to find GCC libraries” reads: > > The short explanation is that if you always pass a -R option to the > linker, your programs become dependent on directories which may be NFS > mounted [...] > > However, if you feel you really need such an option to be passed > automatically to the linker, you may add it to a GCC specs file. [...] > You may add linker flags such as -R or -rpath, depending on platform > and linker, to the *link or *lib specs. > > After spending some time looking at spec strings and at the manual, I > can’t think of a way of emitting ‘-rpath LIBDIR’ for every ‘-LLIBDIR’ > encountered. > > Am I missing something? I don't think so. I don't think there is a way to do that. I think the FAQ is just suggesting adding -rpath options for a few specific directories, not for every -L option. That suggestion was in particular intended to address issues with finding libstdc++.so at runtime. Ian
