Andrew Black wrote:
> Greetings all.
> 
> According to the thread from the Sun Studio C++ forum, it is recommended 
> that that reliance on the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables be avoided.  Rather, 
>  it is recommended that such references be added to executables using 
> the RPATH setting.
> 
> To this end, a revised patch and ChangeLog have been included below that 
> attempt to resolve this issue in the recommended manner.

Cool! Have you checked to make sure the -R option works on
Linux? If so, go ahead and commit it. Otherwise let's either
guard the change for that OS or remove it.

Thanks
Martin

> 
> --Andrew Black
> 
> Martin Sebor wrote:
> 
>> Since the Sun C++ user manual doesn't explain which variable
>> is set in a typical installation of the compiler I posted the
>> question below to the Sun Studio C++ forum to help us decide
>> how to proceed:
>> http://forum.sun.com/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=111021
>>
>> Martin
> 
> 
> ChangeLog:
>     * sunpro.config (SHARED_LDFLAGS): Add -R$(LIBDIR) switch so 
> $(LIBDIR) is included in the runtime library search path of linked 
> executables.
> 
> Index: etc/config/sunpro.config
> ===================================================================
> --- etc/config/sunpro.config    (revision 474551)
> +++ etc/config/sunpro.config    (working copy)
> @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
>  # shared/static library options
>  SHARED_CXXFLAGS =
>  SHARED_CPPFLAGS =
> -SHARED_LDFLAGS  =
> +SHARED_LDFLAGS  = -R$(LIBDIR)
> 
>  STATIC_CXXFLAGS =
>  STATIC_CPPFLAGS =