New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at Leidinger.net> writes:
> Isn't this a property which can be set at build time? I mean: isn't
> there a $OSNAME case where this can be set for a specific OS? So it
> boil down to just set those two variables accordingly in the FreeBSD
> case and to send a patch to the libtool maintainers. For Linux this
> isn't doable, as there are many Linux distros out there, but for
> FreeBSD we can do this. But this should be tested on pointyhat first,
> I think.

I'm not sure I understand your question, but libtool sets the rpath if
1) an .la file is present and 2) hardcode_into_libs is defined.  The
latter happens at the configure stage, the shell code that selects the
default value is in libtool.m4:

--- libtool.m4.orig     Sun Dec 18 22:53:17 2005
+++ libtool.m4  Mon May 14 13:43:46 2007
@@ -1442,7 +1442,7 @@
     ;;
   freebsd*) # from 4.6 on
     shlibpath_overrides_runpath=yes
-    hardcode_into_libs=yes
+    hardcode_into_libs=no
     ;;
   esac
   ;;

I've chosen not to change the default for versions older than 4.6.

DES
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