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

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Broken support for $ORIGIN in gcc.jam
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-02-20 06:05:58

On Saturday 20 February 2010 01:29:54 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'"

Technically, it does not breaks ld's understanding. Try typing

        echo "'$ORIGIN'"

in your shell -- it will come out empty. Now, I have no clue why shell
behaves like this.

I've applied a band-aid:

        https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/59765

HTH,

--
Vladimir Prus
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