On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.bad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:25:06PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>> * Toshio Kuratomi wrote on Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:20:09PM CEST:
>> > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 04:04:04PM -0400, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> > > Greetings.  I package software for Fedora and frequently get hit with
>> > > /usr/lib64 being added as an rpath in builds.  I found what I think is 
>> > > the
>> > > last thread on this subject here:
>> > >   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2010-06/msg00141.html
>> > >
>> > > In the second message, Olly Betts links to a message from 2007 where he
>> > > proposed a patch that would solve this by parsing the output of
>> > > /sbin/ldconfig rather than trying to parse /etc/ld.so.conf.  The thread
>> > > ended with a positive view of the patch and a request to update the patch
>> > > for current libtool.  This last step doesn't appear to have happened.
>> > >
>> > > Since I care about this issue, I've gone ahead and ported the patch to
>> > > current git master.  I'm attaching it here.
>> > >
>> > Anything I need to do to get this looked at?
>>
>> I'm looking at it.  The patch has issues, the approach itself has issues
>> too, and is definitely not ready for the upcoming release.
>>
>> Details when I have them sorted out.
>>
> No problem, thsanks for looking.
>
> /me Awaits list of things to work on :-)


ping?  I'm happy to take up where Ollie left off to improve the
approach but I need to know what the issues that need to be resolved
are :-)  There were no mentioned issues (except first run speed) when
Olly first proposed his patch:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2010-06/msg00146.html

-Toshio

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