Re: meaning of the executables in directory .libs, swarm 2.0

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "NEN" == Norberto Eiji Nawa(0 3 31) <address@hidden> writes:

NEN> I just finished installing swarm 2.0 in my linux box, and as as
NEN> test ran heatbugs. Now the generated "executable" is a script
NEN> file that, after some processing, calls the real executable file
NEN> in a directory named .libs, under the working directory. 

Suppose you have an application that builds some shared libraries that
it uses.  The dynamic loader needs to be able to find these shared
libraries.  The `final' configuration is after these libraries have
been installed in a their permanent home and the executable can have
these paths encoded in it.  Until that happens, it is necessary to use
the system-specific environment variable to point the dynamic loader
at the new shared libraries in the build directory.

Note that the program installed with "make install" is not that
script, it's the executable.

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