Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Heinrich du Toit <[email protected]> · Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:51:43 +0200

Hi

I'm trying to built an ubuntu package for EPICS :)
Just so that I don't have to compile the thing on every client out
there. - Some machines don't really need gcc and all that development
stuff

Anyways.
I'm having a bit of trouble with the way EPICS links to it's own .so
files.
(linux-x86)

It seems that the compile thing sets --rpath in the linker.
This way it links to a specific directory.
Problem is that this directory is not the same when built and installed.
So I would like to have it built without rpath set. 
Then install the .so files to /usr/lib 
And then normal ld.so stuff in linux can link it up.

My question is - how do I get EPICS to not link to a specific directory?

This seems like a chicken-egg problem..
As I want to compile the things linked to libraries that will only be
installed later. :(

Any help will be appreciated
-Heinrich

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System