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| author | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2020-03-03 12:53:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2020-03-03 12:53:00 +0000 |
| commit | d8e4137b5efc2dd5e99c45534cdccbdfcc814f1a (patch) | |
| tree | 7ff6aa61665f0457153bcfc7e040df47954b02a2 | |
| parent | f57140990f9be3232ffbc708fb1aade032052c80 (diff) | |
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Note that the --rpath-link command line option will search the contents of the SEARCH_DIR linker script directive, if one is provided.
PR 25588
* ld.texi (Options): Update the description of the --rpath-link
option.
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| -rw-r--r-- | ld/ld.texi | 15 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ld/ChangeLog b/ld/ChangeLog index 14a917b..94fe79f 100644 --- a/ld/ChangeLog +++ b/ld/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2020-03-03 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> + + PR 25588 + * ld.texi (Options): Update the description of the --rpath-link + option. + 2020-03-02 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> * plugin.c (plugin_object_p): Return a bfd_cleanup. @@ -2011,6 +2011,7 @@ runtime linker would do. The linker uses the following search paths to locate required shared libraries: + @enumerate @item Any directories specified by @option{-rpath-link} options. @@ -2040,8 +2041,18 @@ libraries needed by it. The @code{DT_RPATH} entries are ignored if @item The default directories, normally @file{/lib} and @file{/usr/lib}. @item -For a native linker on an ELF system, if the file @file{/etc/ld.so.conf} -exists, the list of directories found in that file. +For a linker for a Linux system, if the file @file{/etc/ld.so.conf} +exists, the list of directories found in that file. Note: the path +to this file is prefixed with the @code{sysroot} value, if that is +defined, and then any @code{prefix} string if the linker was +configured with the @command{--prefix=<path>} option. +@item +For a native linker on a FreeBSD system, any directories specified by +the @code{_PATH_ELF_HINTS} macro defined in the @file{elf-hints.h} +header file. +@item +Any directories specifed by a @code{SEARCH_DIR} command in the +linker script being used. @end enumerate If the required shared library is not found, the linker will issue a |