[Qt-interest] Linux Deployment using rpath and $ORIGIN

[Thiago Macieira]

On Sunday, 12 de December de 2010 15:18:42 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 12/12/2010 10:58 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > On Sunday, 12 de December de 2010 01:57:31 Joshua Grauman wrote:
> >> Ahh, makes sense. When you say isn't supported in all systems, do you
> >> mean not supported in all X11 systems (ie. HPUX, etc.), or do you mean
> >> not even supported in all Linux systems? Do you know if it is supported
> >> by most Linux systems? Thanks!
> > 
> > Not even all Linux systems. uClibc-based systems do not support $ORIGIN.
> 
> If you care about uClibc systems.  Most people don't (who on earth uses
> that anyway), so $ORIGIN is actually a very nice solution.

Well, a lot of people. In fact, most Linux users of Qt are addressing the 
embedded market, where uClibc is very, very common.

There are only a few embedded / mobile systems running Linux that have glibc.

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