[notmuch] Notmuch shared library

[Carl Worth]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 13:24:22 +0200, martin f krafft <madduck at madduck.net> wrote:
> also sprach Michal Sojka <sojkam1 at fel.cvut.cz> [2010.04.01.1310 +0200]:
> > this can be solved by the following patch, but I don't know how portable
> > it is. You can see the efect of this by
> 
> Please avoid rpath. The better solution is probably to create
> a wrapper for notmuch, which prepends to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

So now should actually list some of the ideas I had:

1. Use rpath for the local notmuch, (and use chrpath to remove it at the
   time of "make install").

2. Create a little shell script that calls LD_LIBRARY_PATH locally, but
   then install the real program, (not very unlike what libtool does).

3. Create a static program locally, but install a shared version.

4. Create a static program by default, and make distributions pass a
   --shared option to get the shared version that they want.

I can see advantages and disadvantages to each approach.

-Carl
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