Re: [gpsd-dev] libgps?

[Greg Troxel]

Do we really have platforms where chrpath is not available?  How about
making chrpath a hard dependency, except on named list of places where
it's known not to work?  Then on most platforms this issue will go
away.

Packaging systems are not ok with making things that link with gpsd
statically link gpsd libraries.  That means that the scope of security
patching is much bigger; one can't just update the library with the bug.
(gpsd has a very low rate of this, but that's not the point.)    So if
you're talking about local copies for testing being static, and the
installed versions still dynamic, that does not seem super problematic,
other than accepting functional regressions due to hatred of libtool :-)

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