[Freeswitch-dev] Invalid rpaths + fix (1.0.4)

Michael Jerris mike at jerris.com
Mon Aug 10 12:08:53 PDT 2009


This kills any ability to have multiple versions installed at the same  
time.

On Aug 10, 2009, at 9:11 AM, Patrick <freeswitch- 
list at puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 08/10/2009 06:35 AM, Michael Jerris wrote:
>> While that mod doesn't need that in the rpath, some others do.  What
>> exactly is invalid about it?
>
> Quoting from
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Beware_of_Rpath
>
> "Sometimes, code will hardcode specific library paths when linking
> binaries (using the -rpath or -R flag). This is commonly referred to  
> as
> an rpath, and in Fedora it is forbidden."
>
> Since Red Hat follows the Fedora Packaging Guidelines this applies to
> RHEL & CentOS too.
>
> Please forgive my ignorance but couldn't a file like
> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/freeswitch.conf which specifies the libs not solve
> this? That would work for Fedora, RHEL & CentOS.
>
> Regards,
> Patrick
>
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