RPATH status

[Enrico Scholz]

Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat.com> writes:

> If you want a relocatable package you can use $ORIGIN though.  So, if
> the binary is in /usr/bin (e.g., devhelp), you make the RPATH
>
>   $ORIGIN/../lib64/firefix-2.0.0.2

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/...



Enrico 
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