On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:20:07AM -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 11:19:01AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > Fedora uses a patch to make sure ocamlmklib doesn't > > set the rpath in generated libraries: > > http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/lxr/extras/source/devel/ocaml/ocaml-rpath.patch > > > > I have never seen a case when the rpath setting was necessary, can > > anyone explain what it's there for? > > I didn't look at the patch, but my feeling is the same: no need of rpath > for ocaml .so. They are indeed outside the standard ld.so directories, > but it doesn't matter since they are in a predefined path, known by the > ocaml interpreter. > > When it get generated is usually a fault of autotools which add it.
Actually, i believe that ocamlmklibs add it by default, and i usually see /usr/X11R6/lib added so, which is why it is important to check this in light of the Xorg 7.0 transition. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
