Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.11 release is imminent

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 07 December 2013 17:08:22 Gary E. Miller wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Dec 2013 00:49:07 -0500 Mike Frysinger 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.

you're right, i misread the python code slightly.  i thought it was doing 
something slightly different.

other complaints:
        - it's pretty slow
        - non-portable -- specific to Linux & glibc

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

it should do absolutely nothing
-mike

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