Re: relocatability tweaks

[Paolo Bonzini]

> > However, if the programmer knows what he's doing, no shared libraries 
> > will be sought in $ORIGIN/../lib and actually the trampoline executable 
> > will not be needed (and there will be no security considerations to be 
> > careful about).
>
> What do you mean here by "if the programmer knows what he's doing"? Do you
> mean, the programmer has a different mechanism for ensuring relocatability,
> that does not use the runtime loader for shared libraries? How should that
> different mechanism look like?

If the program has no dependent libraries in $ORIGIN/../lib, and only 
needs relocatability of *files*.  For example, in GNU Smalltalk I wanted 
to enable relocatability by default if --disable-shared is given.

Paolo