Re: Compiling ORBit is fun, isn't it?

[sopwith redhat com (Elliot Lee)]

On Wed, 21 Oct 1998 20:27:51 +0200 (CEST), Martin Baulig
<martin@home-of-linux.org> wrote:

>why do the tests require static linking - can't we make them work with
>shared libraries as well?

They will use previously installed shared libraries instead of the
newly-compiled shared libraries, if you link dynamically.

Feel free to fix libtool to stop passing gratuitous -rpath's :)
-- Elliot
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