Peter Eisentraut wrote: >Oliver Elphick writes: > >> As far as Debian is concerned, use of rpath is a bug. Here's a
quotefrom >> some Debian system documentation: >> >> libtool automatically inserts `-rpath' settings when compiling
your>> program. > >I don't think so. > >> But `-rpath' can cause big problems if the referenced >> libraries get
updated.Therefore, no Debian package should use the >> `-rpath' option. > >I'm not sure I buy that. All -rpath does
isadd a directory to the search >path that the program consults at runtime for its shared libraries.
I'm referring this back to the Debian mailing lists; perhaps this
documentation is out of date.
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