On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 12:47:40PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
Right now we're unconditionally adding RPATH information to the
installed binaries and libraries, but that's not always desired.
Debian explicitly passes --disable-rpath to configure, and while
I haven't been able to find the same option in the spec file for
either Fedora or RHEL, by running
$ readelf -d /usr/bin/virsh | grep PATH
I can see that the information is not present, so I assume they
also strip it somehow.
Both Debian and Fedora have wiki pages encouraging packagers to
avoid setting RPATH:
https://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RPath_Packaging_Draft
Given the above, it looks like it's actually better to not go
out of our way to include that information in the first place.
I need to look into this because I remember adding the rpath there as
a result that something was not working correctly but now I don't
remember what was it. Originally I did not have it there.
Pavel