Re: [Boost-build] Broken support for $ORIGIN in gcc.jam

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Broken support for $ORIGIN in gcc.jam
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-02-19 17:39:28

Matthew Chambers wrote:
> Hi Volodya,
> 
> As we discussed earlier on IRC, I need $ORIGIN to make my link=shared 
> binaries portable. But <dll-path>'$(ORIGIN)' isn't working because the 
> gcc toolset adds double quotes which breaks ld's understanding of the 
> keyword. So instead of:
> -Wl,-R -Wl,'$ORIGIN'
> I get:
> -Wl,-R -Wl,"'$ORIGIN'"
> 
> The double quoting is hard-coded at gcc.jam:798. My idea for a fix is 
> some shell scripting in that action block, but perhaps there is a better 
> way.

For years now, I've used:

<target-os>linux,<toolset>gcc:<linkflags>-Wl,-rpath,'${ORIGIN}'

HTH

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