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Subject: bug#22659: Collision of /bin/ld
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 23:17:32 +0100
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Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> skribis:

>> This collision is expected. The 'ld' within ld-wrapper, generated from
>> the template in gnu/packages/ld-wrapper.in, automatically adds -rpath
>> arguments to the linker for each shared library, so that the runtime
>> linker will be able to find them in their non-standard locations.
>
> If one of those 'ld' files is the real ld, and the other is supposed to be
> a wrapper around the real one that adds functionality, then how is it that
> things will always work out OK if only one of them is installed? I'm not
> sure how the "arbitrary" selection works, but doesn't the choice matter?

The choice matters, indeed, but it=E2=80=99s deterministic: the first one w=
ins.
And in this case, the first one is the wrapper.

Now, it might be best for =E2=80=98guix environment=E2=80=99 to silence the=
se warnings.

Ludo=E2=80=99.