Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 14:35:12 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: Bjoern Fischer <bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/libexec/rtld-elf rtld.c Message-ID: <372BE410.87C7D5C7@newsguy.com> References: <XFMail.990501105137.jdp@polstra.com>
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John Polstra wrote: > > What do you think? In your opinion (totally unbiased, of course), > does this argument hold water? John, remember the initial complain message? "I have used X, Y and Z, and I *hated* the way .RPATH worked." Need I say more? Well, I will, just in case. :-) There is very little that could be worse than breaking a standard that *is* used by other Unixes. You initial suggestion would add a variable used only by FreeBSD, yes, and it would *MAINTAIN COMPATIBILITY* not only with the standard, but with other OSes. Think how much people will hate you if you try to reverse the search path. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Proof of Trotsky's farsightedness if that _none_ of his predictions have come true yet." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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