RUNPATH and $ORIGIN

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Thu Feb 23 21:49:23 UTC 2006


On Thursday 23 February 2006 16:20, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > in the Gentoo world this is true ... we patch all our binutils to
> > > enable new ld tags by default ... afaik, no other distro does this
> > > which means default behavior in binutils is still to just generate
> > > RPATH
> >
> > then RPATH has to stay ...
>
> We could make it a requirement for uClibc enabled binutils.

i dont think that'd work :/

every application that utilizes RUNPATH's would need to pass 
--enable-new-dtags to ld ... i'm pretty sure most people wouldnt have a clue 
why their application stopped working let alone what a "RUNPATH" is ...
-mike



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