Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

[Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@linpro.no>]

Gaetano Paolone <bigpaul@debian.org> writes:

> Lintian tells me this:
> 
> W: php-gtk: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath
> ./usr/lib/php4/20010901/php_gtk.so /usr/X11R6/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.
> 
> (yes I am writing to -mentoris instead! ;-) )

This is a bug in lintian.  It should not complain about rpath being
set to directories which are part of Debian.

Correct inclusion of rpath is a very important feature which has taken
a lot of sweat, blood and tears to get correctly supported in libtool.
Please don't screw it up.


Kjetil T.