NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/sys/next/programm/6151

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Subject: Re: CFLAGS directives get hardwired?
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Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 19:43:28 GMT
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Thanks to everybody who responded, especially Jutta Degener who turned me
on to the LDPATH environment variable.  This is a workably solution.
However, while pursuing this approach I also came across the following,
taken from the _SunOS_ man pages under the -L option for ld:
           When building a program
               in which one or more objects are loaded when -Bdynamic
               is in effect, those directories specified by -L options
               will be remembered for use at execution time.  This
               permits the construction of software that uses shared
               objects as libraries not residing in the standard
               locations and avoids requiring the specification of the
               environment variable in order to execute such software.

Perfect!  This is an even cleaner solution.  But in the same place in the
_NeXT_ man pages all we get is:
         Add dir to the list of directories in which libraries
          are searched for.  Directories specified with -L are
          searched before the standard directories.

And indeed it doesn't work on the NeXT: the extra paths aren't remembered
at execute time.

Is there a way to accomplish this?

Thanks again,

Colin Garrett
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