Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 02:22:14AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> >    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?

You're making the thing too specific.  The point is that libraries can
change; we're not the only ones that have done that (Linux isn't the only OS
that has done that either).  Forcing the paths to be in the executable when
they do not need to be should logically be thought of as bad due this this
possibility.