Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 07:01:09PM +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> To explain my outburst: Proper use of rpath is a hobby horse of mine,
> as I've spent a lot of time with Solaris, trying to get applications
> and libraries coming from Linux to set it properly. An unpriveleged
> user can not install large suites of software like GNOME or KDE
> without rpath, be it on Linux or Solaris. libtool has eventually made
> this mostly work. The messages implied that libtool was broken to add
> rpath, and needed fixing. I vehemently oppose that. Patching libtool
> in debian/rules is fine with me, though :-)
It should of been an option. Just because Solaris sucks when it comes
to shared libraries (#4 on my why-I-hate-Solaris list) doesn't mean
everything should kludge on Linux. I think 1.4b or something should
be ok.
There is a very long and very sad thread on BTS and another list
debian-devel? about this thing.
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