I don't understand -Wl,-rpath -Wl,.
For convenience I added the relevant manpages below. 

My (mis)understanding first: If I need to separate options with ',', that means that the second '-Wl' is not another option because it comes before ',' which means it is an argument to the '-rpath' option. 

I don't understand how '-rpath' can have a '-Wl,.' argument! 

What would make sense in my mind would be this:

    -Wl,-rpath .

This should invoke -rpath linker option with the current directory argument.

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man gcc:

> -Wl,option 
> 
> Pass option as an option to the
> linker. If option contains commas, it
> is split into multiple options at the
> commas. You can use this syntax to
> pass an argument to the option. For
> example, `-Wl,-Map,output.map' passes
> `-Map output.map' to the linker. When
> u> sing the GNU linker, you can also get
> the same effect with
> `-Wl,-Map=output.map'.

 

man ld:

> -rpath dir 

> Add a directory to the
> runtime library search path. This is
> used when linking an ELF executable
> with shared objects. All -rpath
> arguments are concatenated and passed
> to the runtime linker, which uses them
> to locate shared objects at runtime.
> The -rpath option is also used when
> locating shared objects which are
> needed by shared objects explicitly
> included in the link;
I don't understand -Wl,-rpath -Wl,.
===

For convenience I added the relevant manpages below. 

My (mis)understanding first: If I need to separate options with ',', that means that the second '-Wl' is not another option because it comes before ',' which means it is an argument to the '-rpath' option. 

I don't understand how '-rpath' can have a '-Wl,.' argument! 

What would make sense in my mind would be this:

    -Wl,-rpath .

This should invoke -rpath linker option with the current directory argument.

---------------
man gcc:

> -Wl,option 
> 
> Pass option as an option to the
> linker. If option contains commas, it
> is split into multiple options at the
> commas. You can use this syntax to
> pass an argument to the option. For
> example, `-Wl,-Map,output.map' passes
> `-Map output.map' to the linker. When
> u> sing the GNU linker, you can also get
> the same effect with
> `-Wl,-Map=output.map'.

 

man ld:

> -rpath dir 

> Add a directory to the
> runtime library search path. This is
> used when linking an ELF executable
> with shared objects. All -rpath
> arguments are concatenated and passed
> to the runtime linker, which uses them
> to locate shared objects at runtime.
> The -rpath option is also used when
> locating shared objects which are
> needed by shared objects explicitly
> included in the link;