On 30 Jan 1999, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jan 30, 1999, Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If you wish to make statement that binaries compiled with libtool work > > only on the host they were compiled for and even then only in specific > > conditions then fine - but that makes it totaly unsuitable for use by any > > of the binary distribution maker. > > That's not what I'd like libtool to do. I agree there is a problem to > be fixed, I just think that libtool is not the only piece of software > that may have to be changed to fix it, because it is not the only > piece of software that uses -rpath.
libtool is however the only piece of software that we cannot easially change. > When users of other distributions installed their pre-compiled .dev > packages, programs that would run on Devian distributions would not > run in any other, because /dev/lib is not listed in /etc/ld.so.conf, > and libtool had failed to add /dev/lib to the rpath of Devian > programs. Who's to blame for that? It doesn't really matter who is to blame because it -can- be fixed and fixed fairly easially by the installer, the -rpath situation -cannot- be fixed at all by the installer, I think that is the key difference to realize. Jason
