On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 09:31:16PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:46:03PM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> > From: Andy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> And as for -rpath option. What are the arguments against making it
>>> default?
>> Distribution. If someone builds libcrypto.so with -rpath
>> /usr/local/lib, it means libcrypto.so has to be installed in
>> /usr/local/lib on the target system even if the admin on that one
>> would have prefered to have it in /opt/ssl/lib.
> No. I means programs linked against the library will look, by default,
> in /usr/local/lib. LD_LIBRARY_PATH changes that.
Sure, but compiled-in defaults should always make sense. No application
should require LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be set under normal circumstances.
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