On Mon, 22 Apr 2024, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Nobody said it would be removed soon. But it seems people want to > remove it "eventually", with that eventually possibly being in a couple > of centuries, if computers still exist. > > But if you have the intention of using it in new software, or keeping it > in existing software, maybe you could give your reasons to those who > deprecated it, so that either you convince them of its usefulness, or > they convince you of not using it. DT_RPATH is just as useful as it always was for testing purposes, when you're building binaries against a sysroot and use -rpath and -dynamic-linker pointing to that sysroot, and you really do want the RPATH used at runtime to find both direct and indirect dependencies and DT_RUNPATH would *not* serve the same purpose (because the sysroot is intended to have exactly the same binaries that would eventually be used in the root filesystem of the target in production, it would not be appropriate to set DT_RUNPATH in any of those binaries). -- Joseph S. Myers josmyers@xxxxxxxxxx
