Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.11 release is imminent

[Eric S. Raymond]

Mike Frysinger <address@hidden>:
> 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

Sigh....

If you have a better idea, let's hear it.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>

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