relocatable.texi: remove mention of OpenBSD?

relocatable.texi: remove mention of OpenBSD?

[Reuben Thomas]

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doc/relocatable.texi contains the following text:


>  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.
>

I checked, and the last version of OpenBSD to ship with libtool 1.5 was
5.0, support for which ended in November 2012. Perhaps this text can
therefore be removed?

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Re: relocatable.texi: remove mention of OpenBSD?

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Reuben,

> doc/relocatable.texi contains the following text:
> 
> 
> >  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.
> >
> 
> I checked, and the last version of OpenBSD to ship with libtool 1.5 was
> 5.0, support for which ended in November 2012. Perhaps this text can
> therefore be removed?

This text was written (see 'git annotate doc/relocatable.texi') in 2007,
that is, one year before libtool 2.2 was released. It was based on a
prediction about how libtool versions 2.x would behave [1]. Have you
verified that this prediction has come true?

Bruno

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-03/msg00011.html

Re: relocatable.texi: remove mention of OpenBSD?

[Reuben Thomas]

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On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 at 09:36, Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:

> Hi Reuben,
>
> > doc/relocatable.texi contains the following text:
> >
> >
> > >  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.
> > >
> >
> > I checked, and the last version of OpenBSD to ship with libtool 1.5 was
> > 5.0, support for which ended in November 2012. Perhaps this text can
> > therefore be removed?
>
> This text was written (see 'git annotate doc/relocatable.texi') in 2007,
> that is, one year before libtool 2.2 was released. It was based on a
> prediction about how libtool versions 2.x would behave [1]. Have you
> verified that this prediction has come true?
>

Thanks for looking into this!

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.

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Re: relocatable.texi: remove mention of OpenBSD?

[Bruno Haible]

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