Re: [libvirt PATCH v2 1/1] meson: Drop RPATH usage

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 02:58:07PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > > We can add an option like it was proposed in V1 but with the following > > > changes. In meson.build we would have this: > > > > > > if get_option('rpath') > > > libvirt_rpath = libdir > > > else > > > libvirt_rpath = '' > > > endif > > > > > > and all places with install_rpath would use libvirt_rpath instead of > > > libdir directly and we would not have to have the craze if-else. > > > > Yeah that would be simpler. > > ... I don't think this would work: using > > install_rpath: '' > > will result in an empty RPATH being set, not in RPATH being missing. > So it's a different behavior than the one we want. I specifically tried this to make sure it works and also this is from meson code: self.install_rpath = kwargs.get('install_rpath', '') so yes it works.