RUNPATH and $ORIGIN

[Peter S. Mazinger]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I have built galeon having as RUNPATH [/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox].
> It tries to load libxpcom.so (in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox), but 
> libxpcom.so has RUNPATH as [$ORIGIN:/usr/lib/nspr]. The result is that 
> galeon can't load libxpcom.so
> 
> ld.so does not currently support $ORIGIN, but it fails it seems on the 
> $ORIGIN:<somepath> as well.
> 
> Peter

to be more precise: ld.so (LD_DEBUG=1) first finds libxpcom.so, but when 
it reads libxpcom.so's RUNPATH, it tries to search in that RUNPATH (namely 
$ORIGIN:/usr/lib/nspr again to load it and fails.

I think that RUNPATH should be ignored on itself. $ORIGIN should probably 
be treated as CWD (would be good to interpret it as an absolute path 
beginning with /

Peter 

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