[cups.development] [RFE] STR #2119: configure search directories for shared libraries

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Thu Nov 23 06:43:39 PST 2006


Bernd Krumböck wrote:
> Maybe my descriptions was not precise enough (I'm sorry for this).
> 
> HP-UX linker doesn't support multiple +b (similar -rpath in GNU) options! I
> did several tests which shows that only the last +b option is used. But the
> last +b option is more or less hard coded in configure (setting LDFLAGS
> can't avoid this, because it is inserted before and not after).
> 
> I tried several ways and options, but it seems the only way is to modify the
> configure script.
> 
> There are two ways:
> *) add a configureable parameter for this
> *) automatically create a colon separated list of all used
> (--with-ldap-libs, --with-XX-libs, ...) library paths
> 
> 
> Maybe this feature is not important enough?

Given that only HP-UX acts this way, I would suggest reporting this
as a bug to HP, as +b should be able to combine multiple options.

+b options come from many sources, and we can't hope to deal with
merging them... :(

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