Re: gEDA: gschem rpath autoconf test

[Mario Klebsch <mario-at-NOSPAMklebsch_dot_de>]

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Hi!

Am 25.01.2005 um 11:30 schrieb Hamish Moffatt:
> rpath is evil.

No, it is not.

> It prevents you from moving libraries without recompiling
> the programs that use it.

No, it does not. In fact, you can always use LD_LIBRARY_PATH or modify 
your /etc/ld.so.conf.

> Debian has moved libraries before during big
> transitions; we moved all of the libc5-using libraries to
> /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib. If our programs were compiled with RPATH, we
> would have had to recompile all of those as well.

No, we would not have had to recompile the programs, even those with 
RPATH.

> The Linux dynamic linker (ld.so) HAS a search path facility (with the 
> path
> listed in /etc/ld.so.conf); USE IT.

rm does accept -rf and / as aruments. USE THEM.

> That means if you install gEDA in
> /usr/local/geda, feel free to add /usr/local/geda/lib to
> /etc/ld.so.conf. That is a configuration file and the system
> administrator IS allowed to edit it.

Yes, he is, but he should know, what featore to use for what purpose.

> I'm ok with an rpath option, either on or off by default.
> If it's stuck on, I'll have to hack it out and that'll just waste time.

As I wrote earlier, removing RPATH from an executalbe is a simple task. 
Just a single byte has to be changed to 0.

73, Mario
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