Re: [gpsd-dev] scons quirks

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <address@hidden>:
> This whole tangle is due to using shared libraries.  There must be lots of 
> projects doing that.  Isn't this a solved problem?  Do they all use RPATH?  
> How do distros package things without using chrpath?  Does make handle this 
> better than scons?  (maybe only because there are more examples to copy)  ...

The normal answers to these questions are buried in the huge,
pulsating mass of hacks and kluges called "GNU libtool".

It does weird shit like replacing generation of actual program
binaries with generation of identically-named shellscripts which, when
called, dynamically link binaries and libraries together and then run
them.

Which is fine until you try to gdb your "binaries"...
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>