[csw-maintainers] RPATH/ISALIST (zlib package in /testing)

Roger Håkansson hson at opencsw.org
Wed Apr 8 13:11:20 CEST 2009


James Lee wrote:
>>I can see more problem (as in more work for the
>> maintainer in the future) with actively unsetting LD_OPTIONS than not.
> 
> Sorry I can't see why unsetting something has only been set by yourself
> in the first place is more work.  In fact we should always explicitly
> either set or unset such controlling environmental variables as a
> matter of good practice.
> 

When building packages with gar, the default (i.e without the maintainer 
doing a thing) is that the RPATH will contain 
/opt/csw/lib/$ISALIST:/opt/csw/lib. If a maintainer is to package 
something with a different RPATH he must set it manually, i.e more work 
than default.



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