Binreloc

Stu Tomlinson stu at nosnilmot.com
Sat Mar 24 22:42:34 EDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 22:30 -0600, Richard Laager wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 23:14 -0500, Ethan Blanton wrote:
> > Luke Schierer spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > > > What's the correct fix? Having binreloc in the library and in the
> > > > client, I presume?
> > > 
> > > destroying binreloc?
> > 
> > Sounds good.
> 
> I agree. If the plan is to continue to do an autopackage package, I
> think that can be handled just like any other package would be. The
> binreloc stuff can be patched in as part of the autopackage build.
> There's no reason that the autopackage stuff (diffs included) can't be
> isolated to one directory, which can even (but doesn't have to be)
> stored in our repository (but in any case shouldn't be shipped in the
> released tarball). This is how Debian packages work, for example.

This is the last call for preserving any binary relocation support in
the libpurple/pidgin/etc trees. I plan to take it out and shoot it soon.
Objections?

Regards,


Stu.



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