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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][TOOLS] ioemu: linking fix for *BSD

To: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][TOOLS] ioemu: linking fix for *BSD
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:31:46 +0100
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:59:20AM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Attached patch tells the linker where to find
> 
>         libxenctrl.so.3.2, libxenguest.so.3.2 and libxenstore.so.3.0
> 
> when launching qemu-dm.

This is bogus - the linker can find libraries just fine without
requiring -rpath. If it doesn't, then you need to fix your ld.so.conf
to point to the non-standard location that you're installing libraries
into.

Fedora forbids any use of -rpath, and Debian strongly discourages its
use

http://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Beware_of_Rpath


Daniel
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