From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Cc: libc-hacker@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ignore origin of privileged program
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:20:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37hfh4slh.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim+w_x8hcsBQDTq7xzPONGLReRhdqs+SD8Etdqz@mail.gmail.com> (Ulrich Drepper's message of "Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:04:58 -0500")
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com> writes:
> Of course it is useful.
Not for a privileged binary.
> $ORIGIN is about the build process as much as anything else. If I can
> relocate a package just by installing the files with a different
> prefix that's a big plus. For this you need $ORIGIN or otherwise
> rebuild everything (binary editing doesn't work in general).
That requires the libraries to be put in the same directory as the
binary, which is against all layout recommendations.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-10 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-09 14:47 Andreas Schwab
2010-12-10 0:32 ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-12-10 8:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-12-10 9:19 ` Jakub Jelinek
2010-12-10 9:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-12-10 14:11 ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-12-10 14:20 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2010-12-10 15:14 ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-12-10 15:21 ` Andreas Schwab
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