On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:49:33AM +0200, Claudio Sacerdoti Coen wrote: > 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.
Not so, ... > In the real world users are also installing other libraries by hand > and these libraries expect the installed libraries to have the -rpath. If the debian packaged libraries remove the rpath and the user installed libraries use it, will that not solve the problem ? Have the debian package work ok for us, but keep the user visible behavior exactly as the upstream one ? If people don't like it, they should ask the ocaml team about it. > 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. ] But this is a complete turn around from your previous position, is it not ? > > I do not follow you. OCaml is configured so that libraries are found in > > the stublibs directory > > My concern was about old libraries (i.e. libraries released _before_ the > introduction of stublibs). A, ok, > > AFAICT this does only make sense with 3rd party softwares, I cannot find > > any example where -rpath is useful for Debian packages. > > I agree. :))) > > 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 ;-) Friendly, Sven Luther
