Re: Re: problem getting postgres 8.3.1 with xml support to work on Redhat Enterprise Linux 4

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 05:06:54PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> >What could be more friendly than providing few ways to specify where
> >to look for shared libraries?
>
> rpath linking, so the executable can have relative (or at least on some
> systems absolute) paths to libraries "burned in" at link time. At least
> recent-ish versions of the GNU toolchain do support rpath during
> linking, and the dynamic linker from glibc can use the rpath information.

Oh, Linux supprts rpath, it's just that Debian (and some other
distributions IIRC) forbid its use in distributed binaries.

http://people.debian.org/~che/personal/rpath-considered-harmful

The basic problem is that it makes upgrades difficult if not
impossible wihout recompiling everything.

Postgresql has configure options relating to rpath, never used them
though.

Have a nice day,
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