[notmuch] Notmuch shared library

[Michal Sojka]

On Thu, 01 Apr 2010, Carl Worth wrote:
> 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'd like to be able to run gdb easily on non-installed notmuch, so I'm
fine with 1, 3 and 4.

-Michal