Re: [PATCH] new -no-rpath option to disable hardcoding of library paths

[Scott James Remnant]

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 00:01, Peter O'Gorman wrote:

> Scott James Remnant wrote:
> 
> > Are there any platforms that don't allow not hardcoding the path even
> > when used with shlibpath_ver?  Comments in libtool seem to indicate this
> > would work.
> 
> I also don't see how you got from adding /usr/X11R6/lib to 
> sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec to a whole new option to libtool. I don't 
> like this much, nor do I see the need for it.
> 
> If you really want something like this applied, you'll have to explain 
> why. The reasons you gave for having /usr/X11R6/lib in 
> sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec for linux seemed a little iffy anyway, but 
> since it only changed a single platform and was easy to revert I was 
> willing to give it a try. This one will require a much better argument :)
> 
Well, the actual reason is that it is considered bad practice for Debian
packages to contain libraries with RPATHs in them.  (I did mention it
was an itch).

So in order to comply with that, our package maintainers need a version
of libtool that doesn't RPATH libraries (specifically in /lib, /usr/lib
and /usr/X11R6/lib).

If the Debian libtool package has this, it ends up in all sorts of
pieces of software anyway, so makes some vague sense to have the same
option upstream otherwise things will get horribly out of sync again.

Scott
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