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Re: Why -rpath is so evil [Re: -rpath and policy?]



Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes:

> Le mer 16/06/2004 à 01:21, Philippe Troin a écrit :
> > > In this case we can use wrappers setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH (that's what
> > > e.g. galeon does).
> > 
> > That sounds even uglier. Programs spawned by galeon will inherit the
> > munger LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Why doesn't galeon put its libraries in the
> > right place (/usr/lib)?
> 
> These are the mozilla libraries. As they are not properly versioned,
> they are put in /usr/lib/mozilla.

That might be a case where -rpath is probably bette and the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH munging.

Phil.



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