[M3devel] runpath/unshipped vs. shipped binaries

[Carson Gaspar]

Jay wrote:
>  
> - The horrid RPATH is not my doing. It has "always" been that way.
>  
> - The horrid RPATH is needed, for running not installed binaries, a very real scenario,

No. It's not needed. Please provide a use case where a crappy polluted 
RPATH provides any benefit, and be specific.

If you need to _temporarily_ run binaries in the build tree, where 
${exe_path}/../lib does not contain libraries, set LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
(which overrides RPATH). Or, better still, fix the build to put things 
in $foo/bin and $foo/lib before you run them.

Hard-coding /tmp/frobnitz/blah/lib in RPATH is _extremely_ bad from many 
perspectives, including security. Don't do it. No really, don't.

-- 
Carson