Re: /X11R6/lib needs fixing

[Oystein Viggen <oysteivi@tihlde.org>]

* [Robert Bihlmeyer] 

> (a) Wait for the successor of rpath, and use that
> (b) Declare that /X11R6 is old cruft, and "ln -s / /X11R6"
> (c) Declare that /X11R6 is old cruft, and stop using it for good

Although not at all ideal, wouldn't it also be possible to:

(d) Hardcode /X11R6/lib into ld.so for checking in addition to /lib
    until one of the other solutions is possible.

Personally, I'd prefer (c).  (d) Would be added only as a patch applied
in the .deb package, so that it could be readily removed without
affecting upstream source when what is effectively a distribution
specific problem is fixed.  

A problem with (d) would be that it lessens the incentive for actually
implementing the other solutions.  Another problem is that it sucks and
is ugly as hell.  (on the upside, the patch would hopefully be trivial,
but then again I haven't actually looked at the source so I wouldn't
know).

Oystein
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