On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 07:01:09PM +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Kjetil Torgrim Homme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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. > > Aha, I didn't realize there was that kind of black magic in ld.so > (documented in ldconfig). Well, then I'd venture that ld.so is > imperfect. If it knows to ignore certain paths in ld.so.conf, it > should have sufficient information to ignore those paths when they > appear as rpath. However, I sincerely hope there will be no more > major changes in libc, making this feature needless to implement! > (If the need arises, ld.so with such a patch can be distributed ahead > of time.) > > To explain my outburst: Proper use of rpath is a hobby horse of mine, > as I've spent a lot of time with Solaris, trying to get applications > and libraries coming from Linux to set it properly. An unpriveleged > user can not install large suites of software like GNOME or KDE > without rpath, be it on Linux or Solaris. libtool has eventually made > this mostly work. The messages implied that libtool was broken to add > rpath, and needed fixing. I vehemently oppose that. Patching libtool > in debian/rules is fine with me, though :-)
Although the latter is a horrible kludge that is going to break when the internals of libtool change. Is it not possible for libtool to accept a switch that means "this library is going to be installed in a system path and I don't want -rpath set" ? Maybe libtool already has such a switch or will in a future version? Comments from the libtool maintainer ? -S -- by Rocket to the Moon, by Airplane to the Rocket, by Taxi to the Airport, by Frontdoor to the Taxi, by throwing back the blanket and laying down the legs ... - They Might Be Giants
