Accepted ways when upstream author insists on using MANPATH env var?

2000-09-07 Thread Shaul Karl
TkMan author insists on using the MANPATH environment variable. The bottom line is that * TkMan used to have a variety of ways to set the MANPATH if it was not already set. The MANPATH is simple to set, is recognized on all flavors of UNIX and all man-related tools, is ea

Re: Plugins: proper way to change ld.so search path for a single binary

2000-09-07 Thread Carey Evans
Arthur Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW: I'd really like to know _why_ lintian considers rpath to be > 'generally a bad thing'. rpath caused a bit of pain when Debian upgraded from libc5 to libc6. libc6's ld.so can tell the difference between otherwise identical libraries that have been com

Re: Plugins: proper way to change ld.so search path for a single binary

2000-09-07 Thread Carey Evans
Arthur Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW: I'd really like to know _why_ lintian considers rpath to be > 'generally a bad thing'. rpath caused a bit of pain when Debian upgraded from libc5 to libc6. libc6's ld.so can tell the difference between otherwise identical libraries that have been co