FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> 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?  

--jkl


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