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 _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
