29 Nov
2008
29 Nov
'08
23:13
On 29-Nov-08, at 6:44 PM, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
What is the point of doing all this?
On some systems, when a program is linked against a shared library, it is important to link the program when the shared library is in the final (installed) location. This way it is not necessary for the library to be in the PATH (actually LD_LIBRARY_PATH or similar) at run time.
Perhaps this is not needed on many, if not most, systems. But in the interest of portability this is how it is done for all systems.
Marc