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
quotefrom >> 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
isadd 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documentation is out of date.

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