Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.11 release is imminent

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Mike!

On Sat, 7 Dec 2013 00:49:07 -0500
Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.

Did you try my hack?  It detects that easily.

> 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.

Yes, it does not address cross-compile at all.

> 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

OK, but what would you have a bypass be able to do?

RGDS
GARY
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