Rationale behind _cmake_skip_rpath choice in /etc/rpm/macros.cmake

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Oct 21 13:33:32 UTC 2009


Kevin Kofler wrote:

> Rex Dieter wrote:
>> I'm convinced to revert, I'll run the change by my fellow cmake
>> maintainers (I think we have buy-in from everyone though).
> 
> Please test that we really don't end up with standard paths like /usr/lib
> or /usr/lib64 in the rpath of installed executables when doing that! Last
> time we tried not using CMAKE_SKIP_RPATH, that's exactly what happened.

Yuck, First trial, rebuilding kdeplasma-addons without skip_rpath, yielded 
/usr/lib64 rpaths all over (as well as 1 instance of /usr/lib64/kde4/devel, 
as you alluded).

-- Rex




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