[libvirt PATCH v2 1/1] meson: Drop RPATH usage

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Wed, 2020-08-19 at 15:10 +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 02:58:07PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > > > We can add an option like it was proposed in V1 but with the following
> > > > changes. In meson.build we would have this:
> > > > 
> > > >     if get_option('rpath')
> > > >       libvirt_rpath = libdir
> > > >     else
> > > >       libvirt_rpath = ''
> > > >     endif
> > > > 
> > > > and all places with install_rpath would use libvirt_rpath instead of
> > > > libdir directly and we would not have to have the craze if-else.
> > > 
> > > Yeah that would be simpler.
> > 
> > ... I don't think this would work: using
> > 
> >   install_rpath: ''
> > 
> > will result in an empty RPATH being set, not in RPATH being missing.
> > So it's a different behavior than the one we want.
> 
> I specifically tried this to make sure it works and also this is from
> meson code:
> 
>     self.install_rpath = kwargs.get('install_rpath', '')
> 
> so yes it works.

I tried again and I stand corrected :)

I'll send a new patch in a minute.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization