In message <4.3.1.2.20000601222046.00b91160@pop.mail.yahoo.com>, Mocha writes:
>i'm wondering why if a library package (ELF system) depends on another 
>dynamic loadable library.. when i link to that library, i also need to 
>specify the run time paths to all the other libraries that one library 
>depends on?

So the loader can find them.

>for example, libtiff. when i use link to a dynamic loadable libtiff, i need 
>to add the -rpaths for the jpeg and the zlib as well. is that normal or am 
>i missing something?

It's mostly normal.  The issue is, the loader may not know where to look, and,
as I understand it, the executable is the only one that can warn the loader
about paths it needs to look at...

-s