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Re: [Proposal] binaries must not have rpath outside /usr/lib/<dir>/



On Fri, 02 Dec 2005, Ian Jackson wrote:
> A sensible way to arrange for this to work might be for
> /usr/bin/frobnicate's rpath to specify /usr/lib/frobnicate/modules.
> That way frobnicate can load `frictive' without having to specify the
> path.

Hmm... (reads ELF 1.2). Oh drat, DT_RPATH is a collon-delimited lists of
search path*s*.   Yeah, in that case it certainly makes sense to allow
/usr/local in there.

I apologise. I had forgotten you can have something like
/usr/lib/foo/bar:/usr/local/lib/foo/bar in DT_RPATH.

> Please don't shout.  I heard you the first time.

Yeah, my bad. Sorry about that.

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