Re: gettext

[Bruno Haible]

Daniel R. Grayson writes:
> Part of my original problem is related to me trying to create a binary
> package for a Linux distribution, so I use "make install" with an
> out-of-the-way file prefix.  So library A isn't really getting installed.
> 
> I hope you all come with a solution that works at least for linux.  How about
> installing a script with the package that will do the relinking at "final
> installation" time on those pesky OS's where absolute paths of library files
> are encoded.

The creation of relocatable binary packages requires some extra coding
in the source. This is usually not done on Linux (and is not directly
supported by libtool), because those who want binary packages are
satisfied with the default install location (/usr/local), and those
who want more flexibility can easily download the source and
recompile.

You can certainly write a post-install relinking script for your
package. Its commands will usually be OS dependent. Specifically for
Linux, you can include post-install scripts in the RPM package that
you create.

Bruno