On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 19:53 -0500, Ales Hvezda wrote: > [snip] > > > > will add an appropriate RPATH entry for the libraries we link with. This > > > > should solve the problem, and as we already (IIRC) hard-code a path to > > > > the GEDADATADIR in libgeda anyway. > > > > > > > > Is this a good idea? > > > > > > Since it munges a system variable, doesn't it require root access? > > > > No, its not a system variable. Its a hard-coded library search path > > inserted in the executable at link time. > > Please checkout the following thread on rpath: > http://archives.seul.org/geda/dev/Jan-2005/threads.html#00169
Wow.. that got fairly heated. > -Ales > > PS. My stance hasn't changed (configurable). Configurable is good. Different settings for that suit very different purposes... user dir install, system install, distro-package build etc.. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
