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Re: RPATH status

From: Alexander Boström <abo kth se>
To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list redhat com>
Cc: "Fedora Directory server developer discussion." <fedora-directory-devel redhat com>
Subject: Re: RPATH status
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 10:56:43 +0100

sön 2007-03-11 klockan 11:14 +1100 skrev Andrew Bartlett:

> The reason I ask is that I've been looking at the Fedora DS situation
> (now a package in extras), where every binary is wrapped in a shell
> script to munge the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which just seems wrong to me. 

Yeah, it would be better to use RPATH.

If a process needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH set, but spawns other processes that
do not need it, it's asking for trouble. (For example, a web browser
that starts a PDF reader.)

/abo

References:
- RPATH status
  - From: Miroslav Lichvar
- Re: RPATH status
  - From: Christopher Aillon
- Re: RPATH status
  - From: Ulrich Drepper
- Re: RPATH status
  - From: Andrew Bartlett

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