Simon Richter wrote: > On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> rpath hardcodes an item's location. If this item later moves, >> everything using it gets confused. rpath is generally frowned >> upon. > > rpath adds additional path elements to the search list. Libraries are > still found in the standard directories.
I was wondering about rpath as well. I maintain a couple packages that drop 5 function libs for regina-rexx in /usr/lib. There are probably another 6-8 that someone might package. /usr/lib could soon be as bad as /var/lib/dpkg/info. You can pretty much go for coffee on your first 'dpkg -S'. I modified regina to use rpath and stuck the function libs in a subdirectory. This seems to work well with no negative side effects that I can see. Anyone know what the potential problems are with this? Rick --
