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On 7 May 2007, at 17:51, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> On 07-05-2007 17:02:23 +0200, Johan Hattne wrote: |
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>> On May 7, 2007, at 00:55 , Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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>>> b) I've been killing darwinistic specialties in ncurses and readline |
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>>> recently, on purpose |
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>> :) |
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>> Anyway, here's what I had in mind. |
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Going out on a limb here, but this is how I understand the problem. |
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(1) When linking against a shared/dynamic library the recorded |
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dependency is taken from the -install_name option used when the |
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library was built, or -o if -install_name was not supplied. I guess |
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the point is that if an executable is linked against a not-yet- |
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installed library, it'll work once the library is installed. So |
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libraries can't just be moved from their install location, because |
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everything that is and, interestingly, will be, linked against them |
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will look for the libraries in their old place. |
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(2) In non-prefix, libraries typically end up in /usr/lib*. If /usr |
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isn't on the the same partition as /, there may be problems if |
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something during boot needs /usr/lib to resolve its symbols. Hence, |
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some libraries need to be in /lib, and symlinks won't do. |
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> ncurses patch: no way, the main tree does it like that, so not |
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> going to |
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> change that. |
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ncurses is configured with --libdir=/lib. Then, whatever parts |
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aren't needed in /lib are moved to /usr/lib, with the effect that |
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moved items would no longer be found in /lib. What I tried to do was |
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to configure with --libdir=/usr/lib, move necessary things to /lib |
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and create links where the moved things used to be. |
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> readline patch: I don't understand it |
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readline is configured with --libdir=/usr/lib. Then all libraries |
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are moved to /lib. I wanted to create symlinks for all libraries |
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moved. I guess the intention would have been clearer if I had |
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configured with --libdir=/lib and skipped the move altogether (not |
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tested). |
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That was the idea and sorry for any confusion caused. |
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// Cheers; Johan |
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