On 03-Oct-2000 Yves Arrouye wrote: > Hi, > > I was browsing policy to familiarize myself with it again, and I have two > questions: > > 1. I see no mention on rpath in the policy manual (grepping through all the > .html files) yet lintian issues a warning about it. I'm asking because I'm > packaging something that uses rpath heavily. >
rpath hardcodes an item's location. If this item later moves, everything using it gets confused. rpath is generally frowned upon. > 2. The manual says that one should use -D_REENTRANT when building libraries. > Only libraries? Can I be enlightened on why it matters only for the > libraries? Also, is that still necessary? And lastly, should -D_REENTRANT be > always used or only if you have a library that uses threads (I guess > always...) > even if your lib is not threaded, it could be used by a threaded app. It is important for applications because you do not know how the user will use your lib. A maintainer of an application can easily tell if it uses threads and compile it accordingly.
