Re: What to do about some lintian errors/warnings?
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:59:39PM +0100, Michael Schuerig wrote:
> >> binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath
> >
> > So disable rpath ;)
> > Some configure scripts have a --disable-rpath for that,..
>
> Aha. What's the significance of this? And, if rpath is bad, why is it
> there and used in the first place?
It's not bad, it's good. But it's not needed for Policy compliant
applications/libraries since their library dependencies needs to be
installed in /lib or /usr/lib anyway.
It's actually prohibted by policy, probably to make sure people don't
add their build directories to the rpath.
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