Re: SVN binaries: build linking process

Julian:

Just one quick note:

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 10:42 AM Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_apache.org> wrote:

> >> I used to have such a tool in a past environment. It was WONDERFUL. I
> haven't seen hide nor hair of one for Linux... that would be ideal.
>
> >See the most-voted answer here:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13769141/can-i-change-rpath-in-an-already-compiled-binary
> -- "patchelf"https://nixos.org/patchelf.html is available in the >Ubuntu
> 18.04 repositories at least.
>

Nice! I searched for that a while back and didn't find it. I'll give it
some fun-time!

> >>>> The background is that we have a customer who wants to be able to
> relocate our stuff and one of the first things we'd need to do is to either
> rebuild with a specific path just for them, or rebuild with just the
> leafnames so taht LD_LIBRARY_PATH will work.
> >>>
> >>> The leafnames, plus perhaps some appropriate "rpath"-y configuration
> if you want a default location, sounds like the right way to go, unless
> there's already a tool that can modify .
> >>
> >> It's only the "right way to go" if the community does not have reason
> not to do so. That's really why I asked. And that's the key question.
>

> >Anyone?
>

That's really the question I'm after: I'd rather NOT go down a path that's
known to be "problematic"!

Cheers.

Doug

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