[asterisk-dev] Setting -rpath linker option when appropriate

[David M. Lee]

On Jan 7, 2013, at 7:55 PM, Paul Belanger wrote:

> On 13-01-07 05:06 PM, David M. Lee wrote:
>> Can I get someone to review my -rpath linker option patch[1]? It's
>> really helpful for those of us who dislike installing Asterisk into
>> /usr. (Which I'm beginning to suspect is just me).
>> 
> I'll ask, because I'm curious. Why not /usr?

I like to keep /usr clean for the system distribution.

For Asterisk development, I also like to keep different version installed in parallel. So I tend to install them into /opt/Asterisk/${version}.

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