[Scons-users] SCons always uses relative path even when absolute path is set with LIBPATH

[Bill Deegan]

So the flags are correct, but for your case the values provided to them are
incorrect?

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 8:49 AM, Matthew Bernard <matt.s.bernard at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hey Bill,
>
> It seems like scons already provides the interface to do this through the
> LIBPATH and RPATH constructor variables. When I add them to the shared
> library object it produces the correct linker flags, it is just that it
> removes all of the directory structure that that I build up to have it
> register the dylibs with eh absolute path.
>
> Matt
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 11:45 AM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Matt,
>>
>> If you can figure out the appropriate flags to the linker to resolve this
>> then it shouldn't be to difficult to make some changes to your build
>> Environment() to resolve this issue.
>>
>> -Bill
>>
>> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 8:42 AM, Matthew Bernard <
>> matt.s.bernard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I submitted an issue on GitHub a couple days ago at the link below which
>>> provides some background on my issue as well as important outputs from my
>>> build.
>>>
>>> Systems Notes:
>>> Currently developing on MacOS
>>> python version: 2.7.14
>>> scons versions: custom scons based on 2.1.0 and 3.0.1
>>>
>>> https://github.com/SCons/scons/issues/3128
>>>
>>> A brief history of my problem is that I develop a code which has used
>>> scons to compile an application for many years. Recently, we started some
>>> work which has required us to repackage our code to be compiled as a shared
>>> library to be linked in with another code which uses make.
>>>
>>> I was able to modify our scripts to output the dylib files but they
>>> won't link into the higher program because all of the dependent dylibs are
>>> registered using relative paths. In the brief discussion that I had on
>>> GitHub, I was told this is expected behavior which puts me in a bind
>>> because my code is comprised of 7 projects which depend on each other to
>>> various degrees.
>>>
>>> I have done quite a bit of research and found that there are tools
>>> available for linux and Mac which can postprocess the shared libraries to
>>> reregister the shared libraries using absolute paths but I would prefer to
>>> do this work within scons if at all possible.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help
>>> Matt
>>>
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