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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/8] Having perf use libparsevent.a
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On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> Note, because perf installs in the user's ~/bin and I did not want to
> make it a requirement to add ~/bin to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, I kept the
> library as a .a that is linked directly into perf.

Note you can add an rpath to avoid having to modify LD_LIBRARY_PATH;
rpath is just better for this kind of thing.  As a general rule of
thumb, if you're installing somewhere outside of the target system's
/etc/ld.so.conf, add an rpath.  And for this purpose ignore e.g.
Fedora's broken tendency to put private libraries in
/etc/ld.so.conf.d.