[SDL] Installation of binary apps on linux

[Peter Mulholland]

Hello Michel,

Tuesday, December 5, 2006, 10:07:06 AM, you wrote:

> I maintain that using non-system libs is "exotic". I dont imply 
> "unnecessary evil". If "necessary" for the game, nevertheless I dont 
> want them in my system directories. And if I understand you correctly,
> we agree on that.

Indeed.

> That works fine on Windows because of the rule "place of exe is the 
> first place where to look for dlls". Unix (proper) and Linux have 
> steadfastly refused that rule; whether or not they were right is very 
> much debatable. There are workarounds such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH but the 
> fact it is inherited poses other problems.

That's what -rpath is for. rpath's are tried first, I believe.

> A major security issue.

How? The DirectX setup executable is VeriSigned, if you're really that
paranoid.

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 Peter                            mailto:darkmatter at freeuk.com