Re: User specified location of GD not carried into Makefiles

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 29 January 2007 11:24, Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker wrote:
> Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> > Anyhow, even if you force ./configure to use some particular version=20
> > when building gnuplot, at runtime it will still pick the libgd.so.2=20
> > provided by the system setup or by LD_LIBRARY_PATH. =20
>=20
> Not necessarily.  Shared libraries can be registered with an absolute=20
> path.  The don't have to be searched via LD_LIBRARY_PATH or related=20
> means, and the executable can influence its own effective search path to=
=20
> some extend.  Viz. 'ld' options -R, -rpath etc.

That is true, at least on some systems.  But so far as I know gnuplot's
configure script doesn't do any such thing.  =20

It may be that you can force this in the gdlib-config file; I don't know mu=
ch=20
about that mechanism. But if I understand Lars' comment correctly,=20
the needed fix is not a change to the ./configure script but rather a change
to the environmental variable PATH at the time ./configure is run. =20