Re: Yet another X report + question
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 04:25:48PM +0200, David Coquil wrote:
> One question : why do I still have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH even though the path to
> the X libs is set in /etc/ld.so.conf ? Does ldconfig work under the Hurd ?
The Hurd does not support ld.so.conf nor ld.so.cache. The official way to
fix this is to use rpath, something that is frowned upon by Debian
officially (lintian checks for rpath), although the policy or packaging
manual doesn't mention rpath.
So, we are in a situation where the hurdish correct fix conflicts with
Debian practice. As all Debian packages are set up to remove rpath if
provided, (and changing all packages to support both ways is a lot of work),
and there exists a work around, I am not going to force a solution to this
problem any time near.
And if you are wise and want to avoid a lot of trouble and heated
discussion, you don't bring this topic up on debian-devel, unless your
asbestos underwear is functional :)
(And don't ask me why rpath is officially disapproved. Check the mailing
list archive for long discussions about it).
> Also about the installation :
> I've set the timezone as Europe/Paris in tzconfig, and I get a two hours too late
> system date !
Is your system clock set to Universal Standard Time or to localtime?
If it is localtime, that's not supported currently.
> Anybody has any idea why I get this ? And if it's a bug, where should
> I report it ?
The lack of support for system time being local is a bug in the Hurd.
You should file a bug against the Hurd package.
Thanks,
Marcus
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