Re: %files directive with relocation in %install

[Frank Cusack <fcusack fcusack com>]

On June 30, 2006 1:08:03 AM -0400 Michael Jennings <mej kainx org> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 June 2006, at 04:09:56 (-0600),
> Bob Proulx wrote:
>
> > Using rpath is Evil.  Strong opinions exist there and some
> > (misguided) people actually think rpash is a good thing.  But it
> > truly makes your binary completely unrelocatable.
>
> That's nonsense.  "rpath" is simply an additional library search path
> which is encoded into the library itself.  Nothing is required to be
> in an rpath directory; in fact, it needn't even exist.  Like most any
> other feature, it's not the feature that's bad, but rather the abuses
> of the feature.

Additionally, with $ORIGIN (supported on Solaris and I'm told on Linux)
you have relocatability without the need for wrappers.

-frank