Re: lintian: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

2002-05-10 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To Linux systems, generally, yes. Some commercial Unices dig rpath, > though. Basically, if your package system sucks, rpath is your > friend. I must object to that. rpath is your friend whenever you lack write access to the system library director

Re: not 'cd ..' , was Re: Wierd bug report: /usr/share/.. = / ???

2002-04-10 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Andrea Mennucc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 'cd ..' is the wrong thing to do > > in bash , 'cd ..' takes away a directory from the `pwd` > > when `pwd` ends with a symlink, 'cd ..' > do not bring into .. > > in that case, `ls ..` shows the 'real' parent, 'cd ..' brings into > the 'convenience

Re: not 'cd ..' , was Re: Wierd bug report: /usr/share/.. = / ???

2002-04-10 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Andrea Mennucc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 'cd ..' is the wrong thing to do > > in bash , 'cd ..' takes away a directory from the `pwd` > > when `pwd` ends with a symlink, 'cd ..' > do not bring into .. > > in that case, `ls ..` shows the 'real' parent, 'cd ..' brings into > the 'convenienc

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

2002-02-18 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:00:44AM +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > > ldconfig generates ld.so.cache. ld.so.cache is used by ld.so to know > > which paths should be used. Please note that this filtering mechanism > >

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

2002-02-18 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:00:44AM +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > > ldconfig generates ld.so.cache. ld.so.cache is used by ld.so to know > > which paths should be used. Please note that this filtering mechanism > >

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

2002-02-17 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I mean "hard path" as in an absolute location. That is the problem > with RPATH; it puts absolute locations into the binaries. If the > library moves, the program stops working. > > So if the program contained the full path to libc.so.6, we couldn't >

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

2002-02-17 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I mean "hard path" as in an absolute location. That is the problem > with RPATH; it puts absolute locations into the binaries. If the > library moves, the program stops working. > > So if the program contained the full path to libc.so.6, we couldn't >

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

2002-02-14 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 07:01:09PM +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > > Aha, I didn't realize there was that kind of black magic in ld.so > > (documented in ldconfig). Well, then I'd venture that ld.so is > &

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

2002-02-14 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 07:01:09PM +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > > Aha, I didn't realize there was that kind of black magic in ld.so > > (documented in ldconfig). Well, then I'd venture that ld.so is > &

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

2002-02-12 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
"Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 07:01:09PM +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > > To explain my outburst: Proper use of rpath is a hobby horse of mine, > > as I've spent a lot of time with Solaris, trying to get a

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

2002-02-11 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kjetil Torgrim Homme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is a bug in lintian. It should not complain about rpath being > > set to directories which are part of Debian. > > Yes, it should. In this case, imagine GNU l

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

2002-02-11 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Gaetano Paolone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lintian tells me this: > > W: php-gtk: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath > ./usr/lib/php4/20010901/php_gtk.so /usr/X11R6/lib > N: > N: The binary or shared library defines the `RPATH'. Usually this is a > N: bad thing. Most likely you will find a Make