rpath used in some libraries but not others

Ralf Wildenhues Ralf.Wildenhues at gmx.de
Wed Mar 1 12:30:34 PST 2006


Hi Jeremy,

Jeremy C. Reed <reed <at> reedmedia.net> writes:
> 
>   SONAME      libXfontcache.so.1
>   RPATH       /usr/lib/gcc34:/usr/lib
> 
> versus:
> 
>   SONAME      libXevie.so.1
>   RPATH       /home/reed/xorg/lib:/usr/lib/gcc34:/usr/lib
> 
> Notice the shared library runtime paths as shown above.
> 
> Again the problem is that some libraries do not know where the shared 
> libraries are that they need. For example, Xorg doesn't work because 
> libXfont.so.1 can't find libfontenc.so.1.

Not that I know whether I could help you (I still know very little about Xorg),
but please specify the system this is on, the Libtool version used, and how the
build tree was configured (so I can reproduce this).

Please Cc: me on replies.

Cheers,
Ralf





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