unixodbc library pickup
Steve Langasek
vorlon at netexpress.net
Thu Oct 3 15:45:45 EDT 2002
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 03:19:20PM -0400, Lowden, James K wrote:
> > From: Steve Langasek [mailto:vorlon at netexpress.net]
> > Sent: October 3, 2002 3:06 PM
> > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 02:30:23PM -0400, Castellano, Nicholas wrote:
> > > I think he's
> > > just griping about how much ELF sucks
> > it's libtool
> > that I'm specifically griping about. :) Debian packaging policy
> > specifically prohibits the use of rpath in ELF binaries, because it's
> > an additional lookup that's always either redundant or wrong. (Policy
> > also requires all our libs to be in certain directories within the
> > library path).
> Forgive me my dimness here, please. AIUI Nick's going to set the rpath to
> point to the driver manager, and Debian package policy explicitly prohibits
> such. How is that OK?
Hmm, it's not, but as Nick points out, it's not really your fault that
libtool is evil-broken. I'll just work around any rpath settings in my
packages, like I also do for a handful of other packages. So far,
though, libtool seems to be behaving itself with all the other libraries,
so it shouldn't be a problem.
So just venting about how much work libtool puts users of well-designed
systems to, in the interest of supporting poorly-designed systems. Don't
mind me. :)
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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