[PATCH] Ignore origin of privileged program
Andreas Schwab
schwab@redhat.com
Fri Dec 10 14:20:00 GMT 2010
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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