r129 - trunk

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Author: pere
Date: 2011-09-26 17:41:20 +0000 (Mon, 26 Sep 2011)
New Revision: 129

Modified:
   trunk/NEWS
   trunk/chrpath.1
Log:
Document rpath size limitation better in the manual page. Patch from Eric Raymond.

Modified: trunk/NEWS
===================================================================
--- trunk/NEWS	2006-11-26 12:10:34 UTC (rev 128)
+++ trunk/NEWS	2011-09-26 17:41:20 UTC (rev 129)
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
  * Applied patch from debian to support Hurd and k*BSD.
  * Moved project to <URL: https://alioth.debian.org/projects/chrpath/ >
  * Updated autoconf/automake-related files to latest versions.
+ * Document rpath size limitation better in the manual page.
+   Patch from Eric Raymond.
 
 New in 0.13 released 2004-09-19:
  * Change exit code handling.  Return an error if the operation fail.

Modified: trunk/chrpath.1
===================================================================
--- trunk/chrpath.1	2006-11-26 12:10:34 UTC (rev 128)
+++ trunk/chrpath.1	2011-09-26 17:41:20 UTC (rev 129)
@@ -61,6 +61,13 @@
 if one of the operations failed.  A failing operation terminates
 the program unless -k is specified.
 
+.SH BUGS
+This program cannot create an RPATH tag if the ELF does not have one,
+and it can only replace an RPATH with one of equal or shorter
+length. (Moving ELF sections following a lengthened string table would
+be difficult and error-prone at best, and is sometimes outright
+impossible due to issues like limited ranges in jump instructions.)
+
 .SH AUTHOR
 The chrpath program was written by Petter Reinholdtsen
 <pere at hungry.com>, based on works by Geoffrey Keating