On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 18:32:46 -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Of course it's difficult to tell without any technical details, but my > educated guess would be that the non-free binary-only software they tried > to use was linked with -rpath,
I second that guess. I've seen this before, once with the CDE product Red Hat redistributed, and once with a crossword puzzle generator built on Red Hat (which apparently in some releases used -rpath for X compiles by default). Of course, this problem is typically easily fixed once identified: just change the first character of the RPATH value in the binary to NULL. Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would have the decency to betray his country. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan