Deploy TBB for linux as private .so

[jogshy]

I'm working with OpenSUSE 11.3 which has no TBB available from their package system, so I must deploy the TBB DLLs as private assembly.

I don't want to copy them to /usr/lib nor to add my app's install path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH to avoid conflicts so, ideally, I want to copy the DLLs as:

[PlaceWhereTheUserInstallsMyApp]/MyApp -> My executable file
[PlaceWhereTheUserInstallsMyApp]/libtbb.so

I've seen GCC can use the "rpath" option but I'm not sure how to use it properly and I could not find any reference about how to deploy the TBB's dynamic libraries under linux in the TBB's doc.

Help, please.
thx

[adunsmoor · Accepted solution]

Using rpath works well. You can use a special variable in the rpath called $ORIGIN to specific a location relative to your executable. There is a nice writeup here:

Using ORIGIN for a dynamic runtime library search path

http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~daniel/using_origin/

[jogshy]

Oh, nice! Like the Mac's install_name_tool @executablepath then !