[Xorp-hackers] RPATH issues almost fully resolved

[Ben Greear]

On 12/02/2009 03:37 AM, Bruce Simpson wrote:
> Bruce Simpson wrote:
>> Bruce Simpson wrote:
>>
>>> Dealing with RPATH is a dog. $ORIGIN support didn't get merged to
>>> FreeBSD 7, that would be the real answer.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It's in FreeBSD 8, but I'm still waiting to hear from kib@ if a backport
>> is feasible or not.
>>
>
> He cut a patch for me last night, I tested it, it's cool.
>
> I just checked in a patch to set a relative RPATH across the tree, using
> $ORIGIN. This is still not enabled by default, because it would break
> the tools/ shipped with each protocol.
>
> It does however provide some much needed flexibility -- most of the
> binaries should now run without having to install them first; a major
> downside, in the beginning, with SCons' approach.
>
> libtool spoils us devil children, but as I noticed on the Win32 port, it
> does a lot behind your back sometimes which you don't want happening as
> a developer.
>
> The $ORIGIN change should also make it easier for us to relocate the
> XORP package, and add new stuff. More on that now.
>
> What I plan to do pretty soon, on the 1.7 dragnet, is to make the
> package layout closer to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS).
> There's some stuff in GNU, and in BSD, which the FHS touches on; it's an
> agnostic blend of all them.

I'd like to at least keep the option to install all xorp files in /usr/local/xorp.

This makes it much easier for me to cleanly purge all xorp files and install
new ones.

Thanks,
Ben