On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:43:16PM +0200, Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > > This could be very bad for the root-system package set. ROOT has > libraries named like libMatrix, libPostscript, libPhysics, libMath, and > so on - i.e., very general names. For that reason I moved all the > packages into the subdirectory /usr/lib/root to not cause possible > conflicts. To make this work seamlessly for both the root-system > binaries and user code linked against the libraries, I dump a file > in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/. > > For the root-system binaries, there is of course the option to link with > RPATH set. However, I believe that the Policy actually forbids this.
I see no reason why policy should forbid rpath's for that case. What we don't want is an rpath for "/usr/lib". But an rpath for "/usr/lib/root" would be the right thing to do for libraries/binaries from the root system. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org