Re: [gpsd-dev] scons quirks

[Miroslav Lichvar]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 02:21:32AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 22 November 2013 07:45:43 Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > Mike Frysinger <address@hidden>:
> > > i imagine this will fix it (i use a similar patch in Gentoo, but i gut
> > > more code to completely disable chrpath):
> > 
> > Why is chrpath=no not good enough? Is this something else that needs fixing
> > post-3.10?
> 
> in Gentoo, it's a useless dependency if you aren't running tests.  since no 
> other project really uses it, it means people end up getting this otherwise 
> unused tool.  we like to kill things like that :).

It would be nice if packagers didn't have to use chrpath at all. Now I
need it to remove RPATH from all gpsd binaries and libraries to comply
with our policy as they are set in the installation to /usr/lib or
/usr/lib64.

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Miroslav Lichvar