Is there something like $ORIGIN for AIX ld?

[Jonathan Lu]

Hello Volker,

How about just using static linking? which also makes the executable 
'independent' from other libraries.

Regards
Jonathan

On 09/13/2012 05:34 PM, Volker Simonis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in OpenJDK 7 the java executable is by default linked against
> libjli.so which is located under jre/lib/amd64/jli/libjli.so.
> libjli.so is found by the runtime linker because the java executable
> was linked with a corresponding
> "-Wl,-rpath,$ORIGIN/../jre/lib/amd64/jli" option which allows the
> executable to find the library relatively to its own location.
>
> My question is, if there exists a similar construct for AIX?
>
> The same question (in some more detail) has been already asked some
> time ago in a IBM developerworks forum
> (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/message.jspa?messageID=14036328)
> and because I'm just to lazy to reformulate it with my own words,
> here's it is:
>
> "
> ...
> I want to make my executable, which uses shared libraries, independent
> of any shared library path setings (LIBBPATH ...). Instead the shared
> libraries should
> always be searched for in the directory in which the executable resides.
> This is to ease installation and to ensure, my app always picks up the
> right libraries.
>
> On Platforms like linux, hpux and solaris this can easily be handeled
> by placing $ORIGIN in the link line (e.g. on linux: gcc -Wl,-rpath,$ORIGIN ...
> or on hpux: ld +b \$ORIGIN ... or on solaris: ld -R \$ORIGIN ...)
>
> By doing this and placing all shared libraries that my executbale
> needs in the same
> directory as the executbale itself, the shared libraries are always found from
> that location relative to the location of the executable in the filesystem.
> This works because $ORIGIN is resolved by the dynamic loader not at linktime but
> at execution time. It is resolved to the directory in which the
> executbale resides.
>
> I could not find anything like this for AIX.
> Is there such a mechanism on AIX as well?
> ...
> "
>
> Regards,
> Volker
>