Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.11 release is imminent

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 06 December 2013 23:14:18 Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Gary's ldconfig hack for discovering the system default load path
> works on his Gentoo box and here in Ubuntu land.  Fedora, BSD people
> and others please test.  If this doesn't go sproing in any of our
> target environments it settles all the remaining issues around RPATH.

the current RPATH logic is completely broken.  you cannot assume /lib or 
/usr/lib is the default as it is extremely common to have a system using 
something else.  run a 64bit linux distro ?  most likely you're running x86_64 
which uses /usr/lib64.

what to cross-compile ?  `ldconfig` will tell you absolutely nothing useful.  
your host system might be using /usr/lib, but the target could be using 
/usr/lib64.  or vice versa.

if you want to keep this craziness, then do whatever.  but please put it 
behind a flag so that distros can completely bypass it.  otherwise i'm going to 
have to write yet another patch deleting code from the SConstruct.
-mike

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