Russ Allbery wrote:
> Francesco Namuri <francesco@namuri.it> writes:
>> Il giorno 04/dic/07, alle ore 01:23, Russ Allbery ha scritto:
>
>>> The problem is that libtool doesn't think that lib64 is on the regular
>>> library search path and hence decides that it needs to add rpath, which
>>> is broken at several different levels but best avoided by just using
>>> lib.
>
>> at this point, the only way is to patch libtool after the creation...
>> is it a better solution respect at the use of chrpath?
>
> I guess what I don't understand is that I don't think we're seeing this
> with everything in the archive, and lots of other packages also use
> libtool. Are we seeing this behavior everywhere, or is there something
> different about your package than others?
With sid's Sources.bz2:
cat Sources | grep -E 'Build-Depends:.*(?<=,|\s)chrpath'
This shows 116 packages, so perhaps many of them have similar reasons to
use chrpath, while admittedly many may also have non libtool based
build-systems.
Another example is the transmission package, which I sponsor and
co-maintain. I haven't looked as deeply into it, but it shares the same
lack of --disable-rpath option.
> It may be that upgrading the version of libtool used by the package to the
> current Debian unstable version would fix it, for instance.
It seems to already be the newest version available: aclocal.m4 was
created with aclocal 1.10, so the macros are up-to-date and they set
--rpath in many places.
The way I see it the options for dealing with RPATH are:
- Ask upstream to remove the hardcoded --rpath, either by manually
stripping it from aclocal.m4 or by relibtoolizing with a modified
libtool (since it has the hardcoded rpath set inside its source)
- Suggest the use of the AC_RELOCATABLE macro, which seems to be used by
many projects in their build systems, but I can't find a canonical
source for it.
- Patch the aclocal.m4/confirure.{ac,in} and re-run autoconf on build-time
- Patch the configure script on build-time
Any other ideas?
I'll probably update the wiki[0] with these suggestions and give it a
little cleanup, while I'm at it! :-)
Cheers
[0] http://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue
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