From 95318be14e61c57ae5ec3751280ba702f65cd68d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruno Haible Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 01:49:15 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] relocatable-prog: Update documentation. * doc/relocatable-maint.texi (Supporting Relocation): Update to match the recent changes. --- ChangeLog | 6 ++++++ doc/relocatable-maint.texi | 15 +++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 5a85496ed2..3917f704c4 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2019-02-23 Bruno Haible + + relocatable-prog: Update documentation. + * doc/relocatable-maint.texi (Supporting Relocation): Update to match + the recent changes. + 2019-02-23 Paul Eggert nstrftime: tweak arg order diff --git a/doc/relocatable-maint.texi b/doc/relocatable-maint.texi index b95caaf7c3..9f1b89319d 100644 --- a/doc/relocatable-maint.texi +++ b/doc/relocatable-maint.texi @@ -35,14 +35,21 @@ here in a platform-specific way: @itemize @item -On GNU/Linux, it adds a linker option (@option{-rpath}) that causes -the dynamic linker to search for libraries in a directory relative to -the location of the invoked executable. +On most operating systems, it adds a linker option (@option{-rpath}) that +causes the dynamic linker to search for libraries in a directory relative +to the location of the invoked executable. This works on GNU/Linux and +modern versions of FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Haiku. @item -On other Unix systems, it installs a wrapper executable. The wrapper +On macOS, it modifies the installed executables after installation in a way +that causes the dynamic linker to search for libraries in a directory relative +to the location of the invoked executable. + +@item +On other Unix systems, it installs a trampoline executable. The trampoline sets the environment variable that controls shared library searching (usually @env{LD_LIBRARY_PATH}) and then invokes the real executable. +This applies to operating systems such as AIX, HP-UX, or Minix. @item On Windows, the executable's own directory is searched for libraries, -- 2.39.5