Reuben Thomas wrote:
> I believe the prediction has come true; from libtool's NEWS for version
> 2.1b:
>
> - On (AIX?,) HP-UX, and OpenBSD, hardcoding has been changed to prefer
> rpath over absolute dependent library names. This fixes DESTDIR
> installs, among others, on the non-HP-UX/PA systems.
Thanks; now I believe it. Done:
2021-01-26 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
doc: Remove obsolete text.
Suggested by Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> in
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2021-01/msg00299.html>.
* doc/relocatable.texi (Enabling Relocatability): Stop mentioning an
issue of libtool 1.5.x.
diff --git a/doc/relocatable.texi b/doc/relocatable.texi
index fca0ea5..d2b5033 100644
--- a/doc/relocatable.texi
+++ b/doc/relocatable.texi
@@ -52,9 +52,7 @@ make install DESTDIR=/tmp/inst$$
Installation with @option{--enable-relocatable} will not work for
setuid or setgid executables, because such executables search only
-system library paths for security reasons. Also, installation with
-@option{--enable-relocatable} might not work on OpenBSD, when the
-package contains shared libraries and libtool versions 1.5.xx are used.
+system library paths for security reasons.
The runtime penalty and size penalty are negligible on GNU/Linux (just
one system call more when an executable is launched), and small on
