How forbidden is RPATH?

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

I'm reviewing a package (rapidsvn,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190139) that
makes rpmlint complain:

E: rapidsvn binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath /usr/bin/rapidsvn ['/usr/lib64']

I have tried absolutely everything I can think of to get rid of this.
Either it doesn't work or it breaks the build.

Now rpmlint says this is an error, but
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Schedule/RpathCheckBuildsys
says this is a minor issue.  So I'm not sure what to do; if the
package can't be approved as is then could someone who actually
understands autoconf and libtool (i.e. not me) take a look?

 - J<