[Interest] To rpath or not when building Qt

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday 10 March 2015 19:07:19 Scott Aron Bloom wrote:
> When building Qt for distribution via LGPL of a closed source product using
> shared libraries.
> 
> What is the best method to make sure the plugins pickup the Qt libraries you
> are shipping?

RPATH with $ORIGIN and make sure that the linker option --enable-new-dtags is 
off. If that option is turned on, then the -rpath option inserts DT_RUNPATH 
instead of DT_RPATH dynamic tags and those can be overridden by the 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.

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