[Fedora-packaging] rpaths to libraries in non-standard locations (libperl.so in particular)

Mon Mar 10 15:14:06 UTC 2008

On Monday, 10 March 2008 at 15:24, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >In one OCaml package:
> 
> >  BZ: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434630
> >  spec: http://www.annexia.org/tmp/ocaml/ocaml-perl4caml.spec
> ...
> > On the other hand, maybe I should be allowed to
> > include an rpath in this situation because I really always want to be
> > linked to that particular libperl.so
> 
> This is a case where rpath usage is acceptable, imo.

I wonder why libperl is not a proper library then. I see that it has no SONAME.
Are there any plans upstream to make it a proper library?

R.

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