On 1 Feb 1999, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > In short, we have only three choices, regardless of what happens in > libtool: > > 1) Implement Red Hat's ugly patch in our libc5 ld.so, and thereby be > bugwards compatible with everybody else's Linux.
> 2) Find some other way to make -rpath on Debian work for the common > cases (programs built by libtool included in this category). I really see no choice, if RH has patched their ld.so we simply must or risk being totally incompatible with a huge chunk of binaries. So we need to do one of the above, the most sensible is to steal RH's patch so that we are compatible. Jason