Kjetil Torgrim Homme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gaetano Paolone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Lintian tells me this: >> >> W: php-gtk: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath >> ./usr/lib/php4/20010901/php_gtk.so /usr/X11R6/lib > > This is a bug in lintian. It should not complain about rpath being > set to directories which are part of Debian.
Yes, it should. In this case, imagine GNU libc 3 comes out, Debian decides to migrate to it, and libraries linked against glibc 2 are moved to /usr/i386-glibc2-linux/lib or what not. Without the rpath setting, ld.so will look for libraries in the new place, and everything's fine. With the rpath setting, though, it looks in /usr/X11R6/lib instead, finds glibc3 libraries, and everything breaks (you get lossage like trying to link in both glibc2 and glibc3, for example). Yes, this has actually happened with the libc5->glibc2 transition; the fix to "fvwm2 won't run at all" was "open up the binary with an editor and put a zero byte where the rpath setting begins". This sucked. :-) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
