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On a solaris server where I don't have admin, I am compiling various software and installing in $HOME/usr, and it's mostly working. However, some of the programs that I compile in this way depend on libiconv, which I have also installed in $HOME/usr/lib. These programs will not run unless I export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/usr/lib. If I do not do this, I get an error such as the following:

ld.so.1: rsync: fatal: libiconv.so.2: open failed: No such file or directory

This is expecially bad for rsync, because it does not always operate in a shell environment, so I don't even have the option of using LD_LIBRARY_PATH to make it work. Is it possible to compile my programs such that I do not have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH for them to run?

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You want to look up rpath. With gcc, you pass -Wl,-rpath,/directory/with/library to the compile/link. I think with the Solaris compiler the flag was -R/directory/with/library, but I have no Solaris machine to check with.

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I'm using GCC on solaris, and I can use GNU binutils as well. So should I use the -Wl form? – Ryan Thompson Nov 4 '10 at 22:10
Yeah, -Wl to pass to the linker, and -rpath is what binutils understands, or -Wl,-R,/directory/with/library should work as well (with solaris linker) – Rich Homolka Nov 5 '10 at 0:17
Can I put -rpath /directory/with/library in my LDFLAGS, or is it better to put -Wl,-rpath,/directory/with/library in my CFLAGS? – Ryan Thompson Nov 5 '10 at 0:58
Probably -Wl,-rpath,/path/to/dir in LDFLAGS. Makefiles rarely use ld directly but use ${CC} to drive the ld line, so -Wl is appropriate. – Rich Homolka Nov 5 '10 at 1:59
Wait, don't you mean in CFLAGS? – Ryan Thompson Nov 5 '10 at 2:31
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