Re: $ORIGIN in RPATH suppression

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%welche.eu@localhost>]

On Sat, Jan 04, 2025 at 05:09:22AM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> And, setting aside whether $ORIGIN is right or wrong, perhaps we could
> safely use $ORIGIN during the build, and teach check-shlibs and
> REQUIRES and pkg_add and whatever to find and reject $ORIGIN if it is
> found to be baked into the final product.

That would make meson using packages build as is without patching meson
and sprinkling LD_LIBRARY_PATH everywehere. From memory, meson even tries
to allow reproducible builds which have an issue if $ORIGIN is say very
large during the build and is replaced by a shorter path.

Cheers,

Patrick