On Wed, 2020-08-19 at 11:27 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 12:18:07PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > Given the above I'm not actually sure whether there even is a > > valid usecase for RPATH, but I will openly admit I don't > > understand the problem space well enough to pass judgement. So, > > assuming there are scenarios where we want RPATH information to > > be present, our only course of action is making its inclusion > > configurable, just like it was with autotools. > > I'd like us to query whether we really want rpath at all. > > I've looked at various other apps using Meson. Out of glib, > networkmanager, systemd, and gtk, only systemd sets install_rpath > and that's on its binaries. > > So I think we could likely simplify by dropping the install_rpath > rules. That was my thought as well, but I figured I would act conservatively and try to preserve the current behavior. I'll post an alternative patch getting rid of RPATH altogether. -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
