On Wed, 22 May 2002, Bruno Haible wrote: > > is it easy to _disable_ such feature? We have our own reasons for > > not wanting rpath information in our Debian packages > > Yes. You simply specify --prefix=/nonexistent at configuration time. > At installation time you use "make install DESTDIR=/tmp/destdir" and > then move the installed files from /tmp/destdir/nonexistent to > /usr/local or wherever you want to have them.
This is very un-optimal. Some programs embed the prefix path to find other files, and those would break quite hard... It would be best if we could tell your autoconf macros not to use rpath in a way guaranteed to have no side-efects, and mucking with something other macros use isn't it :-( > But you should know that by doing this you push the LD_LIBRARY_PATH > problem back to the user (unless you already deal with it in some > way). We are a distribution. We _do_ make sure all our libs are in the right place, and reachable by the runtime linker without the need for user configuration. As I said, we have our own reasons to strip rpath from almost all libraries, and we do know what we are doing. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
