On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 21:48 +0000, Thomas Schilling wrote: > 2010/1/13 Duncan Coutts <duncan.cou...@googlemail.com> > > > I'm not sure I can. Apparently I just don't get what other people think > > is wrong with rpath. > > Quoting from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rpath_(linking) > "he primary disadvantage of using RPATH is that it overrides the > LD_LIBRARY_PATH settings which makes things like running a precompiled > binary out of a user's home directory or some other non-default > location difficult or impossible. Use of RPATH also makes it > difficult, if not impossible, to upgrade libraries without forcing a > reinstallation of all the software dependent on (even the older > versions of) the libraries." > > [I haven't been following the discussion too closely, so I may have > missed the point entirely.]
Right, and that problem is solved by the newer RUNPATH setting (it's not actually that new) which works just like RPATH except that it does not override LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Duncan _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list Cvs-ghc@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
