On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 01:09:57 +0100, Alexander Boström wrote:
> lör 2004-12-18 klockan 00:17 +0100 skrev Michael Schwendt:
>
> > > %{_libdir}/libct.so*
> >
> > Files with such non-unique names will likely cause conflicts in
> > %_libdir in the future, when more and more packages share that
> > directory and more projects use similar short names. This topic will
> > come back in the near future as it will be necessary more often to
> > install such libraries into %_libdir/%name/ and add that path to the
> > run-time linker's search path list.
>
> But if a lib needs to be in a directory in the run-time search path then
> it will eventually be part of a conflict anyway, won't it?
>
> Just make sure the users of the library (programs and other libs) has
> the complete pathname (%_libdir/%name/libct.so.?) hardcoded in the
> binaries.
Yes, RPATHs are one way to make the run-time linker load from
other directories.
