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
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