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Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Improve some details in time service document
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Gary E. Miller |
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Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Improve some details in time service documentation. |
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Mon, 2 Dec 2013 13:58:55 -0800 |
Yo Eric!
On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 16:38:59 -0500
"Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Gary E. Miller <address@hidden>:
> > I'll wait to respond after 3.11 ships (today?).
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> I'm holding the release pending a decision on what to do about RPATH
> given that (a) our installation default library directory
> is /usr/local/lib, and (b) /usr/local/lib is not guaranteed to be in
> the default system load path.
Not only not guaranteed, certainly not in the path in Gentoo and many
other distros. Nor should it be. Until a user is willfully installing
non-distro packages they should not just work by default.
> I'm leaning towards leaving it that way and documenting the fact that
> the installation process may pop a sprocket (requiring the user to set
> RPATH by hand) if /usr/local/lib is not on the default rpath. But I'm
> waiting to hear comments from Hal and Miroslav, if they have any.
I agree, although a warning message at install time would also be good.
Real men never read the doc...
RGDS
GARY
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