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Re: relocatable.texi: remove mention of OpenBSD?


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: relocatable.texi: remove mention of OpenBSD?
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:26:03 +0100
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Reuben Thomas wrote:
> I believe the prediction has come true; from libtool's NEWS for version
> 2.1b:
> 
>   - On (AIX?,) HP-UX, and OpenBSD, hardcoding has been changed to prefer
>     rpath over absolute dependent library names.  This fixes DESTDIR
>     installs, among others, on the non-HP-UX/PA systems.

Thanks; now I believe it. Done:


2021-01-26  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>

        doc: Remove obsolete text.
        Suggested by Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> in
        <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2021-01/msg00299.html>.
        * doc/relocatable.texi (Enabling Relocatability): Stop mentioning an
        issue of libtool 1.5.x.

diff --git a/doc/relocatable.texi b/doc/relocatable.texi
index fca0ea5..d2b5033 100644
--- a/doc/relocatable.texi
+++ b/doc/relocatable.texi
@@ -52,9 +52,7 @@ make install DESTDIR=/tmp/inst$$
 
 Installation with @option{--enable-relocatable} will not work for
 setuid or setgid executables, because such executables search only
-system library paths for security reasons.  Also, installation with
-@option{--enable-relocatable} might not work on OpenBSD, when the
-package contains shared libraries and libtool versions 1.5.xx are used.
+system library paths for security reasons.
 
 The runtime penalty and size penalty are negligible on GNU/Linux (just
 one system call more when an executable is launched), and small on




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