On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Robert Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 05 March 2008 16:34:10 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > > It is interesting to note that ldd finds the correct qt4 libraries > > for binaries like assistant, designer, qtdemo, etc even though > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set and /etc/ld.so.conf has not been modified. > > > > I believe this is because qt is linked using rpath, embedding the full > path to the required libraries into the executables. >
Which is not a good thing. It makes upgrading packages very problematic, especially for folks who use "install into /opt/" style of package management. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
