Re: Shared library search paths

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>Oliver Elphick writes:
>
>> As far as Debian is concerned, use of rpath is a bug. Here's a quote from
>> some Debian system documentation:
>>
>> libtool automatically inserts `-rpath' settings when compiling your
>> program.
>
>I don't think so.
>
>> But `-rpath' can cause big problems if the referenced
>> libraries get updated. Therefore, no Debian package should use the
>> `-rpath' option.
>
>I'm not sure I buy that. All -rpath does is add a directory to the search
>path that the program consults at runtime for its shared libraries.

I'm referring this back to the Debian mailing lists; perhaps this
documentation is out of date.

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