Bug 100718 – dev-util/devhelp-0.10 does not set rpath/runpath tags

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Gergan Penkov 2005-07-29 08:32:52 UTC]

There is the following problem, the library /usr/lib/libdevhelp-1.so does not
set the rpath/runpath tags for linking with mozilla or mozilla-firefox.
Expected readelf -d /usr/lib/libdevhelp-1.so|grep -E RUNPATH\|RPATH, should show
/usr/lib/mozilla or another corresponding path, in which the linked libraries
are to be found. This could probably lead to problems by dynamic resolution of
the libraries.
There is also a bug report about this in gnome-bugzilla
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166968.
I'll attach a slightly modified version (patching Makefile.in not Makefile.am
and removing the other patches) of this patch, which resolves the issue.

[Comment 1 Gergan Penkov 2005-07-29 08:39:23 UTC]

Created attachment 64621 [details, diff]
devhelp-rpath.patch

This will set the rpath/runpath tags for /usr/lib/libdevhelp-1.so to the
correct path of mozilla or mozilla-firefox-libraries.

[Comment 2 Gergan Penkov 2005-08-14 06:31:26 UTC]

Created attachment 65917 [details]
devhelp-0.10-r1.ebuild

The ebuild which uses this patch.

[Comment 3 Gergan Penkov 2005-08-15 16:22:39 UTC]

This bug is rendered invalid with the new mozilla and mozilla-firefox ebuilds,
which use the -Wl,-R linker directive in the pkg-config files.