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[PATCH]: Clarify distinction between -rpath and -rpath-link

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Tue Jun 27 09:40:00 GMT 2006 
Hi Guys

  I am checking in the patch below to improve the description of the
  difference between the -rpath and -rpath-link switches when they are
  being used at link time.  The previous wording was ambiguous as to
  which switch was restricted to the native linker.

Cheers
  Nick

ld/ChangeLog
2006-06-27  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>

	* ld.texinfo (-rpath-link): Clarify distinction between -rpath and
	-rpath-link.

Index: ld/ld.texinfo
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/ld/ld.texinfo,v
retrieving revision 1.165
diff -c -3 -p -r1.165 ld.texinfo
*** ld/ld.texinfo	22 Jun 2006 13:43:04 -0000	1.165
--- ld/ld.texinfo	27 Jun 2006 08:44:17 -0000
*************** Any directories specified by @option{-rp
*** 1502,1508 ****
  between @option{-rpath} and @option{-rpath-link} is that directories
  specified by @option{-rpath} options are included in the executable and
  used at runtime, whereas the @option{-rpath-link} option is only effective
! at link time. It is for the native linker only.
  @item
  On an ELF system, if the @option{-rpath} and @code{rpath-link} options
  were not used, search the contents of the environment variable
--- 1502,1510 ----
  between @option{-rpath} and @option{-rpath-link} is that directories
  specified by @option{-rpath} options are included in the executable and
  used at runtime, whereas the @option{-rpath-link} option is only effective
! at link time. Searching @option{-rpath} in this way is only supported
! by native linkers and cross linkers which have been configured with
! the @option{--with-sysroot} option.
  @item
  On an ELF system, if the @option{-rpath} and @code{rpath-link} options
  were not used, search the contents of the environment variable
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