hard coding a library path into an executable while building an rpm
October 6th, 2009
The problem I was trying to fix here was that I had a package that required a much newer version of a library than the system had installed on it. I didn’t want to ruin the stability of the system by updating the library so I build it and placed it in a non standard location (harkening back to the solaris days I guess). If you can’t guess what the problem was, I called the library package qt4-vlc…hint hint.
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