On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 10:11:40AM +0100, Nils O. Sel?sdal wrote: > On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 10:00, Roland McGrath wrote: > > Earlier in the day I was moved by the plight of a developer trying to > > figure out exactly how his rpm postinstall/postuninstall scripts should > > edit /etc/ld.so.conf for the directories they install libraries in. > > I think a good answer is that they shouldn't have to do that. > > > > I just implemented an `include' feature with globbing in ldconfig's > > configuration file parsing. (This will be in an unspecified future glibc > > rpm coming to you in rawhide in the fullness of time.) I propose that in > > future the canonical /etc/ld.so.conf contain just: > > > > include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf > imho people should use rpath if they need to install libraries in non > standard locations.. For rarely used dirs yes, but do you suggest that 50% of all libraries in the system have RPATH /usr/X11R6/lib? That would be very bad, both performance-wise and unless it is RUNPATH, also non-overridable through environment. Qt/KDE are on the same boat as Xorg. Jakub
