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[Johan Jansson <johanjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 08:13:32AM -0600, Anders Logg wrote:
> This seems like a good idea. Since we are always building the demos
> against an installed version of DOLFIN, we know the location of the
> shared library at compile-time, so we might as well include the
> location in the executable. The problem would be if we were to
> distribute precompiled executables separate from the library. Then we
> would need to rely on finding the libraries somewhere in
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH. But we don't so this should be ok.
> 
> So it would work to just modify dolfin-config?
> 
> /Anders
> 

We would also need to modify the makefiles. Right now we use the same
command for compiling and linking. We would need to split this up:

--compiler:
libtool --compile g++

--linker:
libtool --link g++

Or something like that.

  Johan