RPATH in various binaries

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Sun Dec 1 10:09:21 UTC 2013


On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 07:28:53AM -0800, John Reiser wrote:
> > /usr/bin/unpack200: RPATH=$ORIGIN
> 
> > (a) Are these bugs?  They seem to be.
> 
> RPATH=$ORIGIN is not a bug.  It is a correct and thoughtful usage,

I deliberately left this one in because it does look like it needs
inspection.  AIUI it means the binary (or /usr/bin?) is the RPATH.

Also:

$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/unpack200 
file /usr/bin/unpack200 is not owned by any package

> one that even allows for moving the whole package after install.

Given we're talking about a packaged Linux distro, that doesn't seem
very useful to me.

Rich.

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