[M3devel] runpath/unshipped vs. shipped binaries

[Carson Gaspar]

Jay wrote:

> Which shows us that $ORIGIN is not the executable, it is the referencing file.
> Could be ipmlemented to be "both", have it search both, but I don't think it is.

$ORIGIN is the location of the object being linked. That may be the 
executable, or may be a shared library. So if you have:

foo.so
bar.so, linked against foo.so
baz.exe, linked against bar.so

And RPATH for all of them is "$ORIGIN/../lib", when you execute baz.exe, 
it looks for bar.so in $path_to_baz/../lib/bar.so. It then looks for 
foo.so in $path_to_bar/../lib/foo.so.

Note that this is _different_ from linking baz.exe _explicitly_ against 
foo.so, instead of _implicitly_ via bar.so.

Make sure the RPATH you use when linking objects, whether they be 
executables or shared objects, is correct.

-- 
Carson