Re: Running an uninstalled executable
Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.general |
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On Tue, 12 May 2015, Alberto Luaces wrote: > Hello, > > in an autoconf+automake+libtool C++ project containing only one program, > I want to run the executable before installing it. > > Reading the manual I thought that it could be done with > > libtool --mode=execute program_binary > > but it fails, since there are undefined references to shared libraries > not installed in standard directories. > > Can libtool solve this problem for me? Libtool is supposed to solve this problem automatically for libraries in the build-tree built using libtool, or involved libraries which have a correct associated ".la" file. It is not uncommon for the .la files that libtool installs to be deleted, or for libraries to be put into a location other than the paths the .la file says they reside. If the installed libraries violate the libtool expectations, then there are only the choices of building the software with a hard-coded run-path (-RLIBDIR or -Wl,-rpath,/libdir'), or using environment variables like LD_LIBRARY_PATH. As a developer, I find using the run-path to be most reliable/convenient, but this may not be suitable when creating packaged binaries for installation. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn [email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool