Re: enabling shared builds

[Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon at redhat dot com>]

Andrew Cagney wrote:
> There are several ways to address this; and before making this change 
> I think we should consider our options:
>
> - wire build RPATH into binaries
> Doesn't work: the installed binary could load incorrect build-tree 
> solibs and vice versa

yuck.

> - rely on the developers to provide the path explicitly:
>   LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<path-to-all-solibs> ./frysk-core/frysk/bindir/fhpd
> (chance of us getting that right? 0 :-)

ugh

> - provide a wrapper script that sets the environment vis:
>   ./BuildTree ./frysk-core/frysk/bindir/fhpd

Feasible, but a binary should just "work" without lots of wrappers.

> - have 'TestRunner' export LD_LIBRARY_PATH before invoking any utilities

Don't like.

> - create two versions of the binary; one for build-tree and one for 
> install tree

Don't like.

> - switch to install-tree testing
> Would mean breaking configure convention and set --prefix=.  On the 
> other hand it would mean only testing one way.
IMO should be install tree testing anyway, as it simulates the 
environment when Frysk is deployed much more accurately. +1 for this way,

Regards

Phil