Subject: Re: pkg-config files
To: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
From: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu.herrb@laas.fr>
List: tech-x11
Date: 10/28/2003 08:19:52
You wrote (in your message from Monday 27)
 > 
 > > The current X applications in xsrc/xfree/xc/programs are not linked
 > > with -R/usr/X11R6/lib, assuming that /usr/X11R6/lib is in the ld.so
 > > default search path anyways. I don't see why packages should be
 > > different.
 > 
 > That's news to me:
 > 
 >   # objdump -p /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm | grep RPATH
 >   RPATH       /usr/X11R6/lib
 > 
 > "/usr/X11R6/lib" is absolutely not in the built-in default run-path
 > for the linker, nor is it in the shipped "/etc/ld.so.conf", either.
 > 
 > > If X apps should not assume that, then NetBSD.cf should define
 > > ExtraLoadFlags too. (See FreeBSD.cf and sco.cf for the 2 only systems
 > > already doing that).
 > 
 > Actually, it looks we're getting ExtraLoadFlags from including
 > "bsdLib.rules", as does OpenBSD, so that's two more.

Thanks for the correction. I've been looking too fast here (I could
have checked one of my build logs...) 
-- 
					Matthieu