[Fedora-packaging] Updating our rpath guidelines?

[Orcan Ogetbil]

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Several months ago, Mamoru Tasaka suggested a less intrusive way of
> patching a source package's bundled libtool so that /usr/lib64 does
> not end up in the installed binaries.
>
>       So actually for most cases, the case that rpath /usr/lib64 is added
>       (only for 64 bits arch) can be avoided by
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> sed -i.libdir_syssearch -e \
>   '/sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec/s|/usr/lib |/usr/lib /usr/lib64 /lib /lib64 |' \
>   configure
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>       i.e. just add the needed paths to sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec in
>       configure (note that libtool in the build directory is generated by
>       configure) before calling %configure.
>       - You can alternatively do "autoreconf -fi", however calling autotools
>         is not recommended unless unavoidable.
> ----------
>
> I have several packages using the old-style DIE_RPATH_DIE
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Beware_of_Rpath)
> sed hack, and while they've been working out fine so far, I just
> noticed when updating Vala today that this rather invasive change is
> responsible for Vala's test suite not to run: since the Vala libraries
> have not been installed on the system when the tests were run, Rpath
> is actually necessary to run the tests!
>

Did you try LD_PRELOAD or LD_LIBRARY_PATH? Something like

%check
cd tests/
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../src/.libs ./run_tests


Of course the library directory in the build tree and the tests
executable is probably different.

Orcan