Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Charles Fry wrote:

>> I finally found some pseudo-official documentation on this:
>> 
>>    http://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue
>> 
>> which confirms what you said:
>> 
>>    "Currently, the only valid use of this feature in Debian is to add
>>    non-standard library path (like /usr/lib/<package>) to libraries that
>>    are only intended to be used by the executables (or other libraries)
>>    within the package."

> Shouldn't those cases be fixed via LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

No.  Basically, you should never use LD_LIBRARY_PATH if you can possibly
help it; it causes a bunch of really obnoxious problems like causing
sub-proceses run by that process to potentially get the wrong libraries.
It's too large of a lever.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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