RPATH problems in kdelibs

[Thiago Macieira]

Thiago Macieira wrote:
>The alternative is to add a dummy rpath with lots of padding. That one
> we can easily change. The only drawback is the adding of RPATH with no
> RUNPATH, which seems to be the default on Linux: if this is the case,
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH has no effect.

Having an RPATH pointing to a dummy, non-existing directory will have no 
effect on loading, aside from a few extra stats per shared library being 
loaded.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH will be tried as usual, since the dummy RPATH paths won't 
ever load a library.

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