Hi, On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 01:32:48PM -0800, Ken Cunningham wrote: > Many distros, including MacPorts, have avoided @rpath usage in their > port trees except for certain circumstances (relocatable bundles, > etc). > > It’s hard to know just what library is being found to be used, and > it’s hard to force a certain one to be used, for one of many reasons > why @rpath is avoided. > > Debian has written up a full article about why they don’t want to see > @rpath usage in Debian: > > https://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue > > MacPort’s explanations would be similar, if we wrote them all out.
Especially since there's a good alternative in dylibbundler. We're explicitly supporting that by building all libs with -headerpad_max_install_names. -- Clemens
