2004.10.24 07:37 "[Tiff] [request] add --rpath for jpeg and zlib", by Norihiko Murase

2004.10.24 14:56 "Re: [Tiff] [request] add --rpath for jpeg and zlib", by Bob Friesenhahn

[05]% ./configure \
        --prefix=/usr/local/tiff \
        --disable-old-jpeg \
        --with-zlib-include-dir=/usr/local/zlib/include \
        --with-zlib-lib-dir=/usr/local/zlib/lib \
        --with-jpeg-include-dir=/usr/local/jpeg/include \
        --with-jpeg-lib-dir=/usr/local/jpeg/lib

It was a bad idea to include support for these options (particularly *-lib-dir) since they are difficult to implement portably or in a way which satisifies all user expectations.

The solution for this problem is to add the --rpath option when you build libtiff.so and the tools.

Using this option will not please everyone. In particular, it will make Linux and some *BSD users/maintainers very angry.

There are two major schools of thought:

By specifying CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS arguments to configure, the person who configures the package has the option to specify the flags they like (with the drawback that she has to know about the flags).

Bob

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