From 5ee9e1aa114f21d4eab5671f9136c94fd6422481 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruno Haible Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 01:30:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Might not work on OpenBSD. --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ doc/relocatable.texi | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 0ace3f213..9b08c0390 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ 2007-03-01 Bruno Haible + * doc/relocatable.texi: Document that it may not work on OpenBSD. + Reported by Ralf Wildenhues. + +2007-03-01 Bruno Haible + * doc/gnulib-tool.texi (Initial import): Remove paragraph about include ordering constraints. diff --git a/doc/relocatable.texi b/doc/relocatable.texi index 86cacab2f..0eccc8a90 100644 --- a/doc/relocatable.texi +++ b/doc/relocatable.texi @@ -33,7 +33,9 @@ directory. Installation with @option{--enable-relocatable} will not work for setuid or setgid executables, because such executables search only -system library paths for security reasons. +system library paths for security reasons. Also, installation with +@option{--enable-relocatable} might not work not OpenBSD, when the +package contains shared libraries and libtool versions 1.5.xx are used. The runtime penalty and size penalty are negligible on GNU/Linux (just one system call more when an executable is launched), and small on -- 2.11.0