Re: [gpsd-dev] scons quirks

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <address@hidden>:
> There are 2 problems tangled up with RPATH.
> 
> One is testing the new code before it gets installed.  The other is that the 
> default installation goes to /usr/local/xxx rather than /usr/xxx.
> 
> If you are going to install the libraries in /usr/lib/, then the executables 
> don't need any RPATH to find them.  I think scons with chrpath=no should 
> handle that case.  A line or 2 of code in the right place could leave out the 
> RPATHs totally rather than setting them to /usr/lib

Good idea. Done and pushed.

> That leaves the problem of how to test things.  I think the LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
> environment variable does the same thing.  If so scons check could use that.

Also a good idea.  I just verified that setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the
scons recipe makes the regression tests run locally *without* messing with 
RPATH and chrpath intervention afterwards.

Accordingly, I'm removing chrpath as a build dependency and setting the
chrpath default to 'no'. Unless chrpath=yes we will no longer mess with
RPATH at all.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>