On 6/12/07, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> wrote:
> Let's see how libtool handles this situation.
I would recommend against following libtool's lead in this area.
Libtool's fondness for cooking RPATH into binaries makes it very
difficult to deal with, because it's quite common for those binaries to
get installed and distributed, RPATH and all. RPATH should only be used
by a user who knows they have a large-calibre weapon pointed at their foot.
The NetBSD Project has a different opinion and strongly encourages the use of RPATHs. Letting the user alter the lookup path for installed binaries is seen as a security problem. Since every NetBSD system has its libraries in one directory and third-party libraries are in /usr/pkg/lib, there's no problem in hardcoding the paths.