Re: $ORIGIN

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 12:55:16PM +0100, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> * On 2019-08-08 at 12:50 BST, Patrick Welche wrote:
> 
> > What does pkgsrc do to $ORIGIN and why?
> 
> Removes it completely, because we are explicit in our registration of
> dependencies, rather than leaving to where the binary happens to be
> placed in order to find things.
> 
> Yes, this sometimes causes problems with running things out of the
> build area, but for those situations it's fine to set a temporary
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH with the exact locations of where to find things.

Thanks - see my response to Martin, and consider the MacOS case...


Cheers,

Patrick