Re: 7.2b2 "make check" failure on Red Hat Linux 7.2

* Trond Eivind Glomsr?d <teg@redhat.com> [011119 10:47]:
> Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> writes:
> 
> > * Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [011116 16:56]:
> > > teg@redhat.com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød) writes:
> > > > Since it works when prefix isn't /usr, I'd guess that the build
> > > > process sets rpath. This takes precedence over LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> > > 
> > > > Fix? Don't use rpath - it's evil, and should be avoided anyway.
> > > 
> > > Peter, any thoughts on that?  It's not clear to me that removing
> > > rpath settings would be an improvement overall, even if it makes
> > > "make check" more reliable.
> > My general take is rpath is a *GOOD* thing, as it prevents USERS from
> > not being able to find REQUIRED shared libs. 
> 
> Lib-directories should be listed in /etc/ld.so.conf, and no rpath used
> - at least on linux.
no such animal on OpenUNIX 8 (In native "unix" mode).


> 
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> Trond Eivind Glomsrød
> Red Hat, Inc.

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