RPATH status

[Enrico Scholz]

Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat.com> writes:

>> Back references (/..) should be avoided there because they will break
>> when binary is in a symlinked path. E.g. with
>> 
>> | /usr/bin   -> /vol1/usr/bin
>> | /usr/lib64 -> /vol2/usr/lib64
>> 
>> the RPATH above would be resolved to /vol1/usr/lib64/...
>
> If you create such situations it's your own fault.

No; then the package is just broken because binaries can not find
required libraries.


> $ORIGIN is meant to be used with back references

I do not think so; more common case is plain $ORIGIN or $ORIGIN/lib, and
there it makes sense. Nobody can guarantee where /.. really points to.



Enrico
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