Re: Ian's solution [was: What hack in ld.so?]

1999-01-31 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
From: Olaf Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 31 Jan 1999 11:39:23 +0100 > Hi, all! > There's been so much traffic on this thread, that I suspect most > people have missed the fact that Ian Lance Taylor has analyzed and > *solved* the problems with interact

Re: Ian's solution [was: What hack in ld.so?]

1999-01-31 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 13:08:51 -0600 From: David Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am the Debian and upstream maintainer of the libc5 ld.so. Ian's patch will not be going in. I think most people understand this, but I should make clear that it's not my patch. I assume it's from Eric Troa

Re: What hack in ld.so?

1999-01-31 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 16:52:48 -0700 (MST) From: Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > That's not what I'd like libtool to do. I agree there is a problem to > be fixed, I just think that libtool is not the only piece of software > that may have to be changed to fix it, because it

Re: What hack in ld.so?

1999-01-31 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 16:06:04 -0700 (MST) From: Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 30 Jan 1999, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > Obviously, this would have never been needed if old libraries had not > been replaced with (in)compatible versions, but the maintainers of > Debian have

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-30 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 23:42:32 +0100 From: Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In general, it's convenient to store the path in the executable any > time a shared library is installed in a directory which the dynamic > linker does not search by default. Yes, I should have na

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-30 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 23:10:26 +0100 From: Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Is there a better way to do a library transition? I think it is very obvious, that the only correct behaviour is to change the library/soname of all involeved libraries when doing a transition. So

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-30 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 23:30:43 +0100 From: Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Why should the application choose to hard code the PATH in the binary? AFAICS, there is no apparent reason for it. What has the path to do with the library? I think the only thing that should be hard co