On Tuesday 30 August 2005 11:02 pm, Michael Jennings wrote: > On Tuesday, 30 August 2005, at 22:16:40 (-0400), > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > setting the rpath to the system paths is generally pointless and forces > > Eterm to load libraries from /usr/lib before looking at user-specified > > paths (from ld.so.conf or more importantly the LD_LIBRARY_PATH envvar) > > > > if you read the ELF spec, it dictates that the dynamic loader will search > > DT_RPATH paths (/usr/lib and /usr/lib/Eterm here) before checking > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH > > That is correct, and entirely meaningless. > > The reason it's done is so that LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not required on > platforms (like Solaris) without ld.so.conf and such. Sure, in your > particular case, $(libdir) and $(prefix)/lib and so forth may all be > the same and may all be system paths. That is NOT the case in > general, and adding the rpaths hurts NOTHING whatsoever.
or configure.in/Makefile.am could be updated to make this a buildtime option and default to off for say linux hosts but considering your explanation in the previous e-mail, i dont think you'll go for this ;) -mike ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
