On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:43:02PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:34:17PM +0100, Gian Filippo Pinzari wrote: > >David Dawes wrote: > >> I don't have any objections to doing this on Linux. As I said, we > >> already do it on a range of other platforms and I'm not sure why > >> Linux is something of an exception in this regard. Does anyone > >> have a good reason to not do this? > > > >In NX we use alternate versions of libX11, libXext and libXrender. > >This is done in a way that doesn't interfere with the existing X > >client environment, by setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH and, sometimes, > >LD_PRELOAD, before running the involved application. Probably the > >same applies to other systems built on top of X11. The use of > >-rpath is not going to compromise this possibility and I would > >consider this OK. Anyway, as a rule of thumb, I would prefer a > >system where the only libraries that are used are those listed in > >ld.so.conf. A specific application could still override the system > >settings. Such application might wish to do so in order to > >coexist with an alternate setup (think at two different versions > >of KDE or GNOME installed on the same computer). Having applications > >defaulting to a hardcoded library path could be a nightmare. I > >would really prefer to deal with a program failing with an unre- > >solved symbol instead of one dumping its core in the background > >for no apparent reason. > > So long as ld.so.conf overrides the rpath (does it?) then this won't > matter. LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD won't work for setuid apps. > > I'd be happy to make the change for 4.4 if there is some concensus > that it isn't a bad thing to do, and providing that ld.so.conf > provides a mechanism for overriding the rpath.
If you do that, i can guarantee you that all distributions will patch it to restore the previous -rpath less behavior. I guess that -rpath is only usefull for some installation in strange places where one doesn't want to modify the ld.so.conf file or something, or perhaps user built libraries ? Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
