Re: relocatable-lib{,-lgpl}

[Reuben Thomas]

On 7 March 2017 at 12:19, Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:

I have read the documentation in gnulib, and also dug out the original announcement, coincidentally almost exactly 10 years old: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2003-03/msg00020.html

​By the way, I noticed that Alexandre Duret-Lutz asked, in a reply to that original announcement, whether relocatability should not be enabled by default, i.e. --enable-relocatable​ should be the default. I'd like to echo that: can we switch the sense of this flag, please? It's great to be able to placate Windows developers by saying "gnulib can support relocatable programs" while removing custom relocation support from my code base, but it would be even better if I didn't have to put a big notice about using --enable-relocate in my installation notes! The rise of relocatable installation on GNU systems (flatpak, snappy and the rest) means this will increasingly be what developers targeting GNU want too…