On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 03:00:04PM +0200, Clemens Fruhwirth wrote:
3) Running programs
Let's see how libtool handles this situation.
I would recommend against following libtool's lead in this area. Libtool's fondness for cooking RPATH into binaries makes it very difficult to deal with, because it's quite common for those binaries to get installed and distributed, RPATH and all. RPATH should only be used by a user who knows they have a large-calibre weapon pointed at their foot.
Did I understand that correctly that you don't want to see binaries with rpath's pointing to install directories such as /usr/lib/gcc-6.6? So, this forces us to use a wrapper in all cases.
Please think seriously about mangling the names of Haskell libraries to include version information and dropping them in $PREFIX/lib with every other language's libraries. Haskell is not special, and users expect libraries to be in /usr/lib. No wrapper needed, no RPATH needed, as far as I can see no fanciness at all. Stefan