[petsc-dev] buildsystem questions

[Kai Germaschewski]

Hi Jed,

you can use libtool --mode=execute {gdb,ldd} <code>, though I agree that
this is not as convenient as it could be -- but those things are trade-offs.

You can use -R<dir> instead of -L<dir> to set the rpath with libtool, too,
btw., but that really only works in your own project using autotools (which
I gather you rather avoid in the first place. ;)

Haven't checked petsc-dev yet on the original problem, will do...

--Kai



On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Jed Brown <jed at 59a2.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 04:12, Kai Germaschewski
> <kai.germaschewski at unh.edu> wrote:
> > autoconf/automake software normally builds libraries as user that can be
> > directly installed without having to be relinked, so I know it's possible
> to
> > make do without relinking
>
> I find this quite horrible since I think libraries and executables
> intended to be installed in "non-system" directories should always set
> RPATH, and I hate having shell scripts wrapped around test
> executables.  With autotools, I'm constantly fixing up a custom
> environment so that I can run the actual executable from .libs in a
> debugger or inspect it with utilities like ldd.
>
> Jed
>



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