[csw-maintainers] [csw-buildfarm] findutils and its database on the farm

Sebastian Kayser skayser at opencsw.org
Tue Jun 9 14:40:14 CEST 2009


Chris Reece wrote:
> On Fri, June 5, 2009 4:39 am, Sebastian Kayser wrote:
>> Philip Brown wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 06:49:09PM +1200, Chris Reece wrote:
>>>
>>>>> * The R*PATH contains /opt/csw/lib twice. It doesn't really hurt to
>>>>>
>>>> have
>>>>> it in there, just for the sake of standardization.
>>>>> /opt/csw/bin# dump -Lv glocate | grep R*PATH
>>>>> [5]     RUNPATH
>>>>>
>>>> /opt/csw/lib/$ISALIST:/opt/csw/lib:/opt/csw/lib
>>>>
>>>>> [6]     RPATH
>>>>>
>>>> /opt/csw/lib/$ISALIST:/opt/csw/lib:/opt/csw/lib
>>>>
>>> having both RUNPATH and RPATH in there is normal, for some reason. dont
>>> worry about it.
>> IIRC RPATH had been used in the past, but was considered evil as it had
>> priority over LD_LIBRARY_PATH and you could not override it. That's why RUNPATH
>> had been introduced.
>>
>> - RPATH (deprecated, not used)
>> - LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>> - RUNPATH
>> - crle settings
>>
>>
>> I would suppose RPATH is still in there for compatibility purposes.
> 
> I think we may be talking at crossed purposes.  I was under the impression
> that you were commenting on the duplication of "/opt/csw/lib".  I was saying
> that this appears to be down to my following the documented OpenCSW standards.
>  I may be wrong.

Sorry Chris for getting you confused here. I was indeed only after the
duplicate /opt/csw/lib when commenting on your package (and that is what
needs to be taken care of).

The RPATH/RUNPATH thingie was just in response to Phil's mail.

Sebastian



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