[csw-maintainers] chrpath now in Testing

James Lee james at opencsw.org
Wed Apr 1 20:26:31 CEST 2009


On 01/04/09, 18:33:48, Mike Watters <mwatters at opencsw.org> wrote regarding
[csw-maintainers] chrpath now in Testing:

> chrpath
> This will allow changing the RPATH and RUNPATH values in binaries and
> libraries.
> I have done testing on both sparc and x86 platforms and all seems well.

> The main limitation I have found is you can not "grow" the path any
> larger the the initial size.

> for example:
> if the original has RPATH of /opt/csw/lib/SALIST:/opt/csw/lib

> you could NOT make it /opt/csw/lib/$ISALIST:/opt/csw/lib
> but you CAN make it /opt/csw/lib/$ISALIST

That's fine, as per my previous message, /opt/csw/lib is not needed
after /opt/csw/lib/$ISALIST.

Lots of RPATHS have duplicate directories too so often you will have
the slack to add the missing "$I".




James.



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