Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (235 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:39:52PM +0100, Yamaban wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:32, Marcus Meissner <meissner@...> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 05:43:49AM +0100, David Haller wrote:
> > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2012, David Haller wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2012, Philipp Thomas wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:09:58 +0100, Christian Boltz
> <snip>
> > This is actually bad.
> >
> > You have an empty RPATH ... This means that libraries will searched in the 
> > current directory too
> > when you load this module/run this application.
>
> Huh?? Please give a little more info on the reality of what the linker does.
>
> Until now my understanding was that empty and unset RPATH where the same: 
> system-default, no added things.
>
> AFAIK, one had to set RPATH="." to include the current directory, ":" 
> didn't do anything.
>
> Is my knowlegde flawed? Please give enlightment to a poor soul.

Actually no ... If you do things like
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=":/usr/foo/lib:/usr/bar/lib" it looks fine, but
the first component is empty ... so everything will also be searched
in the "" directory, which is the current one.

similar goes for RPATH.

Ciao, Marcus
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