Re: Hi, packaging mldonkey, rpath + other questions

[Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 03:13:19PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> > Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
> > 
> > > On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 02:34:45AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> > > > Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
> > > > 
> > > > > Upstream choose to use rpath, and when i asked on d-m, a huge flameware
> > > > > about the usage of rpath followed, which didn't give me a conclusive
> > > > > answer in any direction. Upstream mostly ignored my question (well they
> > > > > responded, but they like rpath).
> > > > 
> > > > The problem with rpath, as far as I gathered from various falmes, is
> > > > that you depend on the library your build with. Slight changes of the
> > > > libraries make the binary unusable, like moving the library or version
> > > > changes. Without rpath it still find the library.
> > > 
> > > Yes, do you want to argue with upstream ?
> > 
> > No, just fix the debian package of ocaml.
> 
> Please, submit a patch about it, and i will consider applying it ...
> 
> More seriously, as i have no idea how the rpath stuff works internally,
> i am very badly placed about doing this kind of work, don't you think ?

Same here. I greped the source and it seems rpath is only in 3 files,
only of them source. rpath is in the configure stuff, so there might
be a compiletime option to turn it off already.

Its low on my todo list. I will ignore it till something breaks,
someone complains or I get bored.

> ...
> the second one would divert the binaries of the first one, or something
> such.

mldonkey is a start script (doing a cd and starting the real mldonkey),
the mldonkey and 2 small example files. I think packages that conflict
would be good enough. Making them coexist or divert each other
probably uses more space than duplicate example files and startup
script. I don't think someone wants the bytecompile and optimised on
the same system.

MfG
        Goswin