On Sat, 12 Sep 1998 18:09:51 -0400 (EDT) 
 Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> wrote:

 > Well, now that some of pkgsrc properly uses the `rpath' feature of ld, I've
 > found out a neat little hidden feature of a.out platforms -- and if I looked
 > closely at the Mozilla build process, I'd have seen it.  a.out platforms
 > _do_ properly support rpath semantics, even under 1.3.x (where the option is
 > -R to ld).  So, if pkgs are fixed to use rpath, they will work on a.out
 > without /usr/pkg/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf.  `Neato.'
 > 
 > I imagine this could be fixed in the imake stuff for X, as well.  I'll look
 > into doing that.
 > 
 > Now, not that this says that "ld.so.conf is a good idea to add for backwards
 > compatibility in ELF," it does rather shoot a hole in the main counter
 > argument that ld.so.conf is the "hack that exists because a.out has no
 > rpath."  :-)

Yah, I could have told you that :-)

Maybe we could make ld's -R also work as --rpath like binutils ld does?

(Does binutils ld have -R, too?)

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