204544 - NSS command line tools should be linked wth the rpath option on unixen

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(NSS :: Tools, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Rich Megginson]

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We are going to bundle the NSS command line utilities with DS 6.2.  Most of our
other command line utilities are linked with an RPATH like
.:../lib:../../lib:../../../lib:../../../../lib to allow the executable, when
run from the current directory, to find the shared libraries shipped with the
product.  This allows the customer to run them without having to set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH or the OS equivalent in order to run them.  On Windows we just
put all of the required shared libs in the same directory with the executable. 
It would be very helpful if the NSS command line tools could be built this way
as well.

The workaround is to have the user set LD_LIBRARY_PATH before running the tools.
 Alternately, we could provide a shell script wrapper.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Julien Pierre]

Since we are making rpath changes for the tools on Solaris, perhaps this should
be a comment in bug 245518 .

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The bug assignee didn't login in Bugzilla in the last 7 months, so the assignee is being reset.