On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 05:07:26PM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 11:11:17AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:56:34PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > > > lintian says: > > > > > > W: planets: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/bin/planets > > > /usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib > > > N: > > > N: The binary or shared library defines the `RPATH'. Usually this is a > > > N: bad thing. Most likely you will find a Makefile with a line like: > > > N: gcc test.o -o test -Wl,--rpath > > > N: or > > > N: gcc test.o -o test -R/usr/local/lib > > > N: Please contact debian-devel@lists.debian.org if you have questions > > > N: about this. > > > > Just ignore it or add a override. > > Any reason not to Build-Depend: chrpath, and do 'chrpath --delete' on > the result?
Personnaly i don't know, i am no expert in rpath and don't fully understand the issues involved. But upstream strongly advice against doing such things. Here is a mail about this on the debian-ocaml-maint list, but i have not had time to read it fully and understand it myself. http://lists.debian.org/debian-ocaml-maint/2003/debian-ocaml-maint-200304/msg00026.html Claudio Sacerdoti Coen, who works with Stefano i understand, have issues with inter-dependent (ocaml) library packages and such, and encountered this kind of problems. Also remember, that this is about ocaml, not just a bunch of C libraries or executables, and other consideration may apply. Friendly, Sven Luther
