Using DESTDIR during installation

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 07:41:16AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Thanks, but unfortunately this seems to be ignored by
> > > > autogen.sh/configure. At least by lib/X11, but I might be able to
> > > > disable the check.
> > >
> > > Which would result in a huge security hole to have rpath set to e.g.
> > > /var/tmp/... Therefore I currently patch the Makefile to use "-rpath
> > > /usr/lib" instead.
> > 
> 
> does this mean the library ends up with rpath /usr/lib in it? uggh..

No, as I wrote before this approach didn't work. Therefore it
currently ends up with rpath /foo/bar/usr/lib. Even worse I know. And
this happens only for my test builds as long as I don't split the
build in separate packages, probably one for each subdir in lib/.

> this is bad as it stops someone putting a newer version in /usr/local
> of a library that library depends on etc...
> 
> RH used to have SDL linked with -rpath and it took me hours to track
> down why my apps wouldn't use a newer version of the library...

I'm not sure about, but I've heard, that rpath is ignored, when it's
one of the paths in /etc/ld.so.conf.

Stefan

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