On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 10:31:21AM -0500, David Dawes wrote:
> >> So long as ld.so.conf overrides the rpath (does it?) then this won't
> >> matter.  LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD won't work for setuid apps.
> >> 
> >> I'd be happy to make the change for 4.4 if there is some concensus
> >> that it isn't a bad thing to do, and providing that ld.so.conf
> >> provides a mechanism for overriding the rpath.
> >
> >If you do that, i can guarantee you that all distributions will patch it
> >to restore the previous -rpath less behavior.
> 
> Since ld.so.conf does not overriede -rpath, it won't be added for Linux.

Yeah, i read it in another thread, but i just wanted to warn you about
this. I maintain the debian ocaml package, and some stuff there did also
set the rpath, and the concensus when i asked about this was that rpath
is evil, and should never be used (altough some argued the opposite).

Sven Luther
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