[M3devel] ROOT, $ORIGIN, runpath, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, symlinks, hardlinks, etc.

[Jay]

Ok, so I think a very important question is:

 

  >>> Should users have a choice of where to install? 

  >>> What are the reasonable ramifications of someone who makes a non-default choice? 

 

/Personally/ I want the choice, esp. if I don't have root access!, and I don't want to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

I want my choice and no negative consequences, and $origin basically gives me that.

Except NetBSD prior to 5.0. 5.0 already released.

And I guess Solaris prior to 2.7 or such.

 

 

We do agree on a change vs. previous releases, at least.

And it overlaps with what I did already.

 

 

 - Jay

 


CC: wagner at elegosoft.com; m3devel at elegosoft.com
From: hosking at cs.purdue.edu
To: jay.krell at cornell.edu
Subject: Re: [M3devel] ROOT, $ORIGIN, runpath, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, symlinks, hardlinks, etc.
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:59:25 -0400




I agree, LD_LIBRARY_PATH should only be used by power-users in a pinch during development.



On 2 Jul 2009, at 14:56, Jay wrote:


Here are some good links, other people trying to explain this stuff:
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