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Re: --rpath on 1.7.8


From: Scott James Remnant
Subject: Re: --rpath on 1.7.8
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 17:19:47 +0000

On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 04:41, address@hidden wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:29:23AM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 03:20, address@hidden wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:01:17PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > > > Could you do './libtool --version' from the software's source directory
> > > > for me...  I strongly suspect you've got a Debian libtool there <g>
> > > 
> > > Yes, that's the right guess.
> > > 
> > > ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.5.0a (1.1220.2.33 2003/09/29 11:43:50) Debian: 
> > > 103 $
> > > 
> > The developer of that piece of software was obviously using Debian
> > unstable (Rev 103 is libtool_1.5-4); that added /usr/X11R6/lib and
> > /usr/local/lib to the assumed library paths.
> 
> By assumed library paths does that mean the paths that the system knows 
> about and therefore do not need to be included as rpath settings when 
> linking?
> 
> Is there a problem with always using -rpath when linking?  I.e. was 
> adding /usr/local/lib to the binary's paths causing a problem before?
> 
It's a Debian thing not to rpath to libraries, I've changed the patch
for one that adds a -no-rpath option for maintainers to put in their
packages' LDFLAGS.

Scott
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