On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 11:18:18AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 09 May 2002, Marc Haber wrote: > > >Yes, for libraries. Plugins may use/need rpath. > > What exactly is the definition of a plugin in this context? > dynamic objects used/usable *only* by a certain program/library. E.g. the > apache plugins (plugin for app), the SASL plugins (plugin for a library); > Also linked at runtime using dlopen() or something like that. IMHO anyway. This does not follow. If it's a plugin, you don't link against it, so rpath is irrelevant. If it's something you link against, it's a library, and policy requires that it go in one of the system paths: therefore, rpath is unnecessary. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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