Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux
> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 18:05:45 -0600
> From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
> No, HE broke his program. When you use -rpath, you are
> presumably aware of the consequences of your actions, both
> beneficial and harmful. If you use it, you have to be aware that
> this can happen.
How could a user that linked his program before the Debian Developers
decided to move the libc5 libraries be aware of the consequences of
his actions?
On Feb 2, 1999, Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com> wrote:
> -rpath works reasonably in the presence of upgrades, provided the
> upgrade does not move any shared libraries.
Moving shared libraries has never been the real problem. Replacing
shared libraries with incompatible ones was.
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
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