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Re: [gpsd-dev] RPATH tangle


From: Eric S. Raymond
Subject: Re: [gpsd-dev] RPATH tangle
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 12:39:13 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

David Spencer <address@hidden>:
> Hi folks,
> 
> You're missing a major use case completely: the build-from-source
> distributions -- Gentoo, Slackware, Arch, LFS.  In this case it's the
> packager's job to deliver a reliable means of having the end user
> build gpsd cleanly and repeatably.  For this use case, adding a
> preachy moany nannying message about installing chrpath when
> chrpath=no would be even more inappropriate than requiring chrpath
> itself.  The end user would see it and go, WTF?

Your criticism would be more impressive if you'd been paying better
attention.  There is no "preachy moany nannying message about
installing chrpath", under any circumstances.

The only way you get a message about chrpath is if you configure with
chrpath=yes and it's not present, in which case you get prompted to
rebuild with chrpath=no.  Since that's now the default, you have
to go out of your way to trip over this problem.
-- 
                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>



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