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

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Roger,

Am 08.04.2009 um 13:11 schrieb Roger Håkansson:
> 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.

This is done because it works in almost all cases. As maintainer you
can choose to optimize this, though. Of course the default action
is open for discussion ;-)


Best regards

   -- Dago