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Re: [HACKERS] dynamic libraries

Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>

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From: "Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>
To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>, lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu, Bill.Allie@mug.org, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-10-12T20:20:59Z
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"Matthew N. Dodd" wrote:
  >  For
  >ELF, the specification supports compiled in library search paths; lets use
  >them.  Asking the system administrator to keep track of another library
  >path is most assuming.  -R/--rpath also makes it simpler for non-root
  >users to install PostgreSQL.
 
If you do this, Debian Linux will consider it a bug and I shall have to take
it out for the Debian package.  From Debian documentation:

   "`-rpath' can cause big problems if the referenced
    libraries get updated. Therefore, no Debian package should use the
    `-rpath' option."


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