Advice on rpath

[Rex Dieter]

Neal Becker wrote:

> It seems many (most?) modern apps that install libs will want to hardcode
> paths using -rpath.  It seems this causes rpm builds to fail, e.g.:
> 
> * 'check-rpaths' is part of 'rpmdevtools'.
> *
>
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> ERROR   0001: file '/usr/bin/xapian-tcpsrv' contains a standard
> rpath '/usr/lib64' in [/usr/lib64]
> [...]
> 
> In some cases, configure has --disable-rpaths that can fix this.  In other
> cases not.
> 
> Is it acceptable for fe-extras to ignore this error?  AFAICT, this is
> harmless.  What is the motivation to make this an error?

It's not exactly harmless, but it's not a deal-breaker either. IMO, it's one
of those SHOULD fix items, but not worth moving mountains for...

-- Rex