OS X and shared Libraries

[elabsjng at mac.com]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. Maybe I misunderstand but I though, on Linux,  
the run-time linker had a set of search paths to look for shared  
libraries?

Best Regards, Simon.


On 14 Jan 2008, at 13:37, Matrix Mole wrote:

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> elabsjng at mac.com wrote:
> | Hi,
> |
> | When macports compiles and links an application are the shared  
> library
> | paths hard coded into the binary? I s this the typical behaviour  
> on OS X?
>
> ~From my understanding, this is typical behavior on just about any
> platform that has software compiled with shared library support.  
> When a
> binary file is compiled, during the configuration step there is  
> usually
> an option that determines the shard library path. If you wanted to
> change the location of shared libraries you'd have to re-run the
> configure script with the new library directory and then recompile the
> software.
>
> Matrix Mole
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