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Re: deprecated status of RPATH


On Friday 04 May 2012 07:38:27 Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> the ld.so(8) man page says "Use of DT_RPATH is deprecated." which I
> understand is because the ELF spec declares it obsolete, replaced by
> DT_RUNPATH.  Is it safe to assume (even if toolchains switch to
> outputting DT_RUNPATH by default, which I've been informed SUSE and
> Gentoo already do) that for the foreseeable future ld.so will continue
> to honour RPATH tags in executables without RUNPATH tags?

i can't see glibc's ldso ever dropping support for DT_RPATH
-mike

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