Re: Solaris8 build fails to link with -ldb

On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 01:29:25AM +1000, Anthony Baxter wrote:
>
> >>> "Sander Striker" wrote
> > LDFLAGS=-R/opt/local/BerkeleyDB4/lib; export LDFLAGS
> > ./configure ...
> >
> > That's usually how it's done. I would like to add the -R flags,
> > but I'm not sure if that is going to fly with everyone.
>
> I can't see why not - if you specify that the berkeley libs are in
> a particular directory, surely the whole build process should "make
> this work"...
>

There is a camp that believes that /etc/ld.so.conf is the place
for this sort of thing, rather than in the executables themselves.

On a related note: we recently had a linux RPM that tried to
access /home/david/..., because the packaging was done in that
directory. It gracefully handled the failure and found the libraries
elsewhere, though. No problem?

Well, IIRC, someone using automounted home directories had a problem.

It could have been worse: imagine that a nefarious David on the same
machine noticed the broken embedded rpath info in the svn executable
and decided to put doctored versions of the shared libraries in his
home directory?

--ben

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Received on Fri Sep 12 19:35:37 2003