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Re: Separate install

From: Jeffrey Walton via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 23:51:41 -0500

On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 5:48 PM Ray Satiro via curl-library
<curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se> wrote:
>
> On 12/21/2023 5:25 AM, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote:
> > A comment problem people seem to have, is installing a custom libcurl
> > somewhere, only to find that their new curl executable does not use
> > the new libcurl but instead load another/system libcurl.
> >
> > To help us not having to repeat ourselves as much in the future, I
> > added a page to everything curl about it:
> >
> > https://everything.curl.dev/build/separate
>
> I'm proposing we add an explanation of rpath vs runpath. [1] I think the
> latter is better when available because it can be overridden by
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/bagder/everything-curl/pull/371

Also see <https://stackoverflow.com/a/55283740> for a brief history
and some complaints.

Jeff
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Received on 2023-12-22