Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 06:40:31PM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> So, in other words, you would have Debian violate FSSTND, FHS, and decades
>
> Wow, just when I thought we'd reached some degree of consensus.
>
> ``Decades of historical precedent?'' ``Arrogance almost beyond
> comprehension?'' Are you interested in solving the problem, or are
> you just talking?
I, and others, have already proposed a simple solution: add a command-line
option to disable rpath. A *better* solution would be to disable it where
it is not needed.
> Of all the nerve, this has to take the cake. I have no problem with
> maintaining compatibility, but when it comes to something like this, where
> compatibility CAN be maintained while still allowing us to take advantage of
> our features, to insist that we must ignore our features is outlandish.
>
> As far as I can tell, compatibility was broken with any program that
> linked with -rpath and a system directory. libtool merely happens to
> be one example.
Those programs broke compatibility. By using rpath, they were specifically
asking to NOT be compatible. This could be desirable in some cases, but
only in special cases, and not in general.
>
> Ian
>
>
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