New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> (from Mon, 14 May 2007  
13:44:37 +0200):

> Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at Leidinger.net> writes:
>> Isn't this a property which can be set at build time? I mean: isn't
>> there a $OSNAME case where this can be set for a specific OS? So it
>> boil down to just set those two variables accordingly in the FreeBSD
>> case and to send a patch to the libtool maintainers. For Linux this
>> isn't doable, as there are many Linux distros out there, but for
>> FreeBSD we can do this. But this should be tested on pointyhat first,
>> I think.
>
> I'm not sure I understand your question, but libtool sets the rpath if
> 1) an .la file is present and 2) hardcode_into_libs is defined.  The
> latter happens at the configure stage, the shell code that selects the
> default value is in libtool.m4:
>
> --- libtool.m4.orig     Sun Dec 18 22:53:17 2005
> +++ libtool.m4  Mon May 14 13:43:46 2007
> @@ -1442,7 +1442,7 @@
>      ;;
>    freebsd*) # from 4.6 on
>      shlibpath_overrides_runpath=yes
> -    hardcode_into_libs=yes
> +    hardcode_into_libs=no
>      ;;
>    esac
>    ;;
>
> I've chosen not to change the default for versions older than 4.6.

If this works well, you just have to submit this patch to the libtool  
maintainers and wait until all (relevant) software packages are  
updated to use the libtool version which comes with this change.

Bye,
Alexander.

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