On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:58:25PM -0500, Ales Hvezda wrote: > >I noticed that gschem's configure script won't set the required > >-Rpath or -Wl,--rpath, or whatever flags needed to set the runtime > >path to the X11 libraries. The attached patch adds that check > >and it seems to work fine. Without this, you have to > >manually set LDFLAGS in your configure environmnet or set LD_LIBRARY_PATH > >on solaris and other os's. > > > >Anyone see any problems with this? > > I have no problem with this, as long as this doesn't force > rpath on other platforms where it is discouraged.
I'm a bit behind on this list; sorry about that. But my 2 bits worth: rpath is evil. It prevents you from moving libraries without recompiling the programs that use it. Debian has moved libraries before during big transitions; we moved all of the libc5-using libraries to /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib. If our programs were compiled with RPATH, we would have had to recompile all of those as well. The Linux dynamic linker (ld.so) HAS a search path facility (with the path listed in /etc/ld.so.conf); USE IT. That means if you install gEDA in /usr/local/geda, feel free to add /usr/local/geda/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf. That is a configuration file and the system administrator IS allowed to edit it. I'm ok with an rpath option, either on or off by default. If it's stuck on, I'll have to hack it out and that'll just waste time. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
