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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
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Subject: Re: XEmacs 20.3-beta4 ("Warsaw") is released
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Reply-To: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>

>>>>> "BAW" == Barry A Warsaw <bwarsaw@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> writes:

BAW> I don't get why you'd want auto-include on buildpath but not runpath,
BAW> but I'm willing to believe that's my own site myopia.

runpath is a user-visible thing, while build directories are not.

Suppose I build with -L/net/foo/lib, and configure helpfully adds
-R/net/foo/lib to runpath, and this binary is shipped to some other
site that happens to have a hostname "foo", but the corresponding host
is down or non-existent, then XEmacs will hang at startup while ld.so
tries to contact host foo.  This has happened to me!

Extra -L or -I directories don't suffer from these same problems.

But yes, there is more configure work to be done in this area.

Martin

