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Re: Motivation for -rpath-link
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:08:27PM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Vladimir,
>
> > I'm somewhat confused about one sentence in -rpath-link documentaion. It says:
> >
> > When using ELF or SunOS, one shared library may require another.
> > [....]
> > When the linker encounters such a dependency when doing a non-shared,
> > non-relocatable link, it will automatically try to locate the required
> > shared library and include it in the link, if it is not included
> > explicitly.
> >
> > Why this behaviour is desired?
>
> The behaviour is desired because the executable that is being created
> is supposed to be able to run without requiring *any* shared
> libraries. ie it is completely self-contained.
Hmm, that's not my interpretation of the above. This happens during
linking of a dynamic executable as well - that's a non-shared,
non-relocatable link, since it produces an ET_EXEC.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer