On 2003-07-06(Sun) 11:08:58 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > There is a "catch-22" with this approach in that adding > -L$inst_prefix_dir to the front of the linker search path may cause > the wrong dependency libraries to be used, which is just as bad as > picking up the wrong target library. The approach is reasonably safe > for a DESTDIR install since one may assume that the existing libraries > in $inst_prefix_dir are related to the current build, but is dangerous > for a normal user install.
Hi bob, I would disagree quite _strongly_ for this, since DESTDIR install is not expected to be used for normal user install; if user wants to install stuff into some private area (say under $HOME), they would use configure --prefix=/some/other/path, and install software into other paths directly, without staging install. Isn't staging install intended for packaging only? For several _YEARS_, packagers for software were very troubled because of not-completely-working staging install. I really hope this issue can be sorted out, once and for all. Abel > Although special tweaks may be applied for a DESTDIR install, the > library paths should be as the user specified for a normal install. > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen > -- Abel Cheung Linux counter #256983 | http://counter.li.org GPG Key: (0xC67186FF) | http://deaddog.org/gpg.asc Key fingerprint: 671C C7AE EFB5 110C D6D1 41EE 4152 E1F1 C671 86FF
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