[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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