FreeTDS Development Group

[Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>]

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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