RUNPATH and $ORIGIN

[Joakim Tjernlund]

> 
> On Thursday 23 February 2006 16:20, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > > On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > in the Gentoo world this is true ... we patch all our 
> binutils to 
> > > > enable new ld tags by default ... afaik, no other 
> distro does this 
> > > > which means default behavior in binutils is still to 
> just generate 
> > > > RPATH
> > >
> > > then RPATH has to stay ...
> >
> > We could make it a requirement for uClibc enabled binutils.
> 
> i dont think that'd work :/
> 
> every application that utilizes RUNPATH's would need to pass 
> --enable-new-dtags to ld ... i'm pretty sure most people 
> wouldnt have a clue why their application stopped working let 
> alone what a "RUNPATH" is ...
> -mike

I was hoping there was a configure option to binutils that enabled that by default