On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 04/14/2014 07:08 AM, Jeff Trawick wrote: > > (not to say there aren't complications, like trying to keep system > > directories out of rpath) > > I think that you're asking for mod_ssl to add an openssl-specific > directory to its rpath. > > in general, i would discourage this; at the least, it needs to be an > option that can be easily disabled during ./configure -- libssl and > libcrypto should be in the usual system library path, and hard-coding a > specific location makes system maintenance unpredictable and more > difficult than it needs to be. > > For a decent overview of the problems with rpath from a distro's > perspective: > > https://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue > > Regards, > > --dkg > > We already add rpaths for other libraries in non-standard places (I guess that comes for free with libtool). We wouldn't add rpath to a system directory. I've been all over that document and a bunch of others when needing to remove rpath on various platforms for particular distribution requirements. But that's a different, much smaller group of people than a normal admin/user specifying "--with-ssl=" and then running into further complications, such as not picking up the expected (fixed) library. A --disable-rpath option would be awesome if indeed it would do that generally. -- Born in Roswell... married an alien... http://emptyhammock.com/ http://edjective.org/
