From c3d76bb254eb33dbe2cd23e00f5f135f3c12381c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Levitte Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 10:06:15 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] NOTES.UNIX: add additional note about --enable-new-dtags Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5374) --- NOTES.UNIX | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/NOTES.UNIX b/NOTES.UNIX index 43146e9ed0..32361072a5 100644 --- a/NOTES.UNIX +++ b/NOTES.UNIX @@ -28,3 +28,15 @@ $ ./config --prefix=/usr/local/ssl --openssldir=/usr/local/ssl \ -Wl,-rpath,'$(LIBRPATH)' + + On modern systems using GNU ld.so, a better choice may be to use the + new dtags, like this: + + $ ./config --prefix=/usr/local/ssl --openssldir=/usr/local/ssl \ + -Wl,--enable-new-dtags,-rpath,'$(LIBRPATH)' + + This sets DT_RUNPATH instead of DT_RPATH. DT_RUNPATH is considered after + the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH, while DT_RPATH is considered + before that environment variable (which means that the values in that + environment variable won't matter if the library is found in the + paths given by DT_RPATH). -- 2.34.1