[Qt-interest] Linux Deployment using rpath and $ORIGIN

[Thiago Macieira]

On Saturday, 11 de December de 2010 21:03:45 Joshua Grauman wrote:
> I've read the Qt docs about deploying Qt under Linux. It gives the
> following  three ways to deploy the libraries when using dynamic linking.
> I was wondering if the best option isn't even mentioned here. I just read
> that rpath can take $ORIGIN as an option which looks for libraries in the
> directory of the executable. Wouldn't that avoid all the disadvantages
> listed below, and not require the use of a startup script separate from
> the executable? Couldn't a simple tool called linuxdeployqt (similar to
> the Mac one) be created to set the rpath of the executable to $ORIGIN, and
> copy the libs to that directory? Wouldn't this possibly also avoid the
> setuid problem listed below?

$ORIGIN isn't supported in all systems.

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