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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."



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