Re: [Proposal] binaries must not have rpath outside /usr/lib/<dir>/
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Indeed, rpath is only acceptable for:
> > 1. dynamically loaded modules/plugins
> > 2. libraries that must live outside of ld.so directories
>
> And these things might reasonably be searched for in
> /usr/local/lib/foo as well as /usr/lib/foo.
rpath is for the canon location of a library. If someone wants something
searched, he puts it (in fact, I guess we already do for him) in ld.so.conf.
There is no legal, acceptable or even remotely sane reason for a rpath
pointing to /usr/local/* *IN SOMETHING PACKAGED BY DEBIAN*.
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