RE: Two questions about policy
On 03-Oct-2000 Yves Arrouye wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was browsing policy to familiarize myself with it again, and I have two
> questions:
>
> 1. I see no mention on rpath in the policy manual (grepping through all the
> .html files) yet lintian issues a warning about it. I'm asking because I'm
> packaging something that uses rpath heavily.
>
rpath hardcodes an item's location. If this item later moves, everything using
it gets confused. rpath is generally frowned upon.
> 2. The manual says that one should use -D_REENTRANT when building libraries.
> Only libraries? Can I be enlightened on why it matters only for the
> libraries? Also, is that still necessary? And lastly, should -D_REENTRANT be
> always used or only if you have a library that uses threads (I guess
> always...)
>
even if your lib is not threaded, it could be used by a threaded app. It is
important for applications because you do not know how the user will use your
lib. A maintainer of an application can easily tell if it uses threads and
compile it accordingly.
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