On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:49:33AM +0200, Claudio Sacerdoti Coen wrote: > Dear Denis, > > thank you for your comments. I basically completely agree with you. > I just tried to make the issue clear: I was not proposing/criticizing > the debian solution. Anyway...
Even if this was not your intention, you have this right ;) [...] > That's right. This is a big issue. I agree with Sven that we should > ask Xavier to add a flag to avoid adding the -rpath. At the same > time (as usual), Sven is only concerned by a 100% pure-debian host. If you think so, it looks like he fails making his position clear ;) > In the real world users are also installing other libraries by hand > and these libraries expect the installed libraries to have the -rpath. > Thus we should ask Xavier something more: he should make the > -norpath the default and deprecate its usage. [ I think that this is > not too much problematic now that we have stublibs. ] No, AFAICT Sven's position is that -rpath should be the default so that manually installed libraries and programs can be linked with any library, but a -norpath flag will be used when building packages. This should make everyone happy, unless we miss some problems. [...] > > Sure, your example was really great, it helped me a lot to understand > > how to compile OCaml libraries. > > It helped me in the same way ;-) If you have time and energy, you could play with ocamlopt and "objdump -p" to understand how -rpath interacts with RPATH sections in ELF binaries. I will try to do it myself. Denis
