On June 30, 2006 1:08:03 AM -0400 Michael Jennings <mej@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wednesday, 28 June 2006, at 04:09:56 (-0600),
Bob Proulx wrote:
Using rpath is Evil. Strong opinions exist there and some
(misguided) people actually think rpash is a good thing. But it
truly makes your binary completely unrelocatable.
That's nonsense. "rpath" is simply an additional library search path
which is encoded into the library itself. Nothing is required to be
in an rpath directory; in fact, it needn't even exist. Like most any
other feature, it's not the feature that's bad, but rather the abuses
of the feature.
Additionally, with $ORIGIN (supported on Solaris and I'm told on Linux)
you have relocatability without the need for wrappers.
-frank
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