On 11 April 2010 20:50, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
It would be very useful to have this optional, since Debian policy
forbids setting rpath. Any chance of applying a patch similar to the
attached?
sure - though since Debian policy also puts everything in /usr, I'm curious
where I might be picking up an rpath for this case. (The immediate
motivation was for FreeBSD and NetBSD).
Right, policy does put everything under /usr but configure ends up
with -L/usr/local/lib courtesy of Perl's ExtUtils::Embed::ldopts.
Perl contains this path since we want users to be able to build local
extensions/embedded programs linked against libraries in
/usr/local/lib, and the default ld.so.conf contains that path so no
rpath is required.