Re: RPATH bug opened

From: Daniel Black <daniel.subs_at_internode.on.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 07:17:39 +1000

On Thursday 08 April 2010 05:11:37 Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> > Someone anonymously (via OpenID) reported a bug that post-installation,
> > our binaries don't contain an RPATH to the installed library locations.
> > I'd have thought libtool would handle this, but apparently it's not.
> > Unfortunately the bug doesn't talk about which OS or anything like that.
> >
> > Can someone with more automake fu than me take a look? Bug #2983206.
>
> I think I fixed this (change to libopendkim/Makefile.am), but I'd love it
> if someone could confirm that I did the right thing.

generally setting rpath isn't looked favourably upon by distros.
http://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue

There's controversial pros and cons for and against rpaths.

you've done it the right way though. You've only added it to one lib though.
Received on Wed Apr 07 2010 - 21:19:46 PST

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