I'm getting this warning from lintian: $ lintian -i gimp-print_4.2.5-3_i386.changes W: cupsys-driver-gimpprint: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/lib/cups/backend/epson /usr/lib N: N: The binary or shared library defines the `RPATH'. Usually this is a N: bad thing. Most likely you will find a Makefile with a line like: N: gcc test.o -o test -Wl,--rpath N: or N: gcc test.o -o test -R/usr/local/lib N: Please contact debian-devel@lists.debian.org if you have questions N: about this. N: W: cupsys-driver-gimpprint: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/lib/cups/backend/canon /usr/lib W: cupsys-driver-gimpprint: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertoprinter /usr/lib W: cupsys-driver-gimpprint: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/lib/cups/filter/commandtoepson /usr/lib
Looking at the build log, rpath /is/ being used, firstly when linking libgimpprint: /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link gcc -Wall -Wcast-align -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Wwrite-strings -pedantic -g -O2 -o libgimpprint.la -version-info 2:0:1 -rpath /usr/lib print-lexmark.lo print-canon.lo print-dither.lo print-escp2.lo print-escp2-data.lo print-pcl.lo print-ps.lo print-util.lo print-color.lo print-weave.lo print-version.lo print-dither-matrices.lo -lm -lz However, this a libtool option, and does not actually result in DT_RPATH being set in the shared library. When building all the cups binaries, ld rpath is used, but is not mentioned in the Makefile/Makefile.am: /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link gcc -Wall -Wcast-align -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Wwrite-strings -pedantic -g -O2 -o epson epson.o ../../lib/libprintut.la -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -lcupsimage -ltiff -ljpeg -lpng -lm -lz -lcups -L/usr/lib -lgnutls -lnsl -lz gcc -Wall -Wcast-align -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Wwrite-strings -pedantic -g -O2 -o epson epson.o -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/lib ../../lib/.libs/libprintut.al -lcupsimage -ltiff /usr/lib/libjpeg.so -lpng -lm -lcups -L/usr/lib /usr/lib/libgnutls.so /usr/lib/libtasn1.so /usr/lib/libgcrypt.so -lnsl -lz What is making libtool use ld's -rpath option here? Is it something to do with the libraries being linked, which are different between the libtool and gcc commands? Why are libjpeg/libgnutls etc. absolute paths, and why are the libgnutls dependencies expanded by libtool? Thanks, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 available on public keyservers