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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:00:28 -0800
From: Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz@ebuilt.com>
To: Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>, dev@apr.apache.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add --with-efence option.
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On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 09:53:02AM -0800, Aaron Bannert wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 09:44:23AM -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 09:29:54AM -0800, Aaron Bannert wrote:
> > > The -R flag shouldn't need to be solaris specific. Libtool interprets -R
> > > and -rpath in the same way, and it turns it into whatever is appropriate
> > > for the local linker. So just add -rpath (or -R if you prefer) always
> > > for all platforms.
> > 
> > The problem is at this point in the configure test, we don't
> > have libtool up.  =)  I thought about that.  But, I'm afraid 
> > that if we don't put the platform specific option there and we
> > do an AC_TRY_RUN with the -R flag, we'll die due to a bad
> > runtime search path.  Am I wrong?  -- justin
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how the library runtime
> path would have any bearing on an AC test. It either links or it fails,
> right?

Okay, say we do that.  Remember that AC_TRY_RUN will compile, link, 
and run.  By that time we've done the following:

LDFLAGS="-Lpath/to/efence/lib -Rpath/to/efence/lib"
LIBS="-lefence"

The autoconf tests are handled by $CC *not* libtool.  A linker that
doesn't understand -R will die.  We don't use libtool until the
make process begins.  Which means we need the platform-specific
runtime linker flag at configure time.  When we do make, we can
rely on libtool handling the -R though.

However, say we don't add the platform specific link flag, then all
runs will fail on -R needing platforms since we linked against
efence, but didn't specify where its runtime path was.  -- justin