Hello folks,

The Automake manual says:

       For libraries whose destination directory is known when Automake
    runs, Automake will automatically supply the appropriate `-rpath'
    option to libtool.  This is the case for libraries listed explicitly in
    some installable `_LTLIBRARIES' variables such as `lib_LTLIBRARIES'.

When building Debian packages, this is incorrect behavior.  An rpath of
/usr/lib should not be encoded in binaries or libraries since it
interferes with the normal system library search path and can therefore
cause problems with mixed 32-bit and 64-bit library environments and other
complex installations.

Is there any way to selectively disable this feature when building
libraries for a Debian package?  Some configure option, perhaps?  I
suppose that one can edit the Makefiles after running configure to remove
-rpath $(libdir), but that's an ugly hack.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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