Re: [gpsd-users] Getting ready to ship 3.8

[Greg Troxel]

Thomas Petazzoni <address@hidden> writes:

>  * Second issue is that gpsd hardcodes a runtime library path (RPATH)
>    in its libraries, which when cross-compiling means that paths of the
>    build machine are leaked into the target machine. So we have a
>    simple patch that disables the RPATH usage:
>
>    
> http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/package/gpsd/gpsd-02-sconstruct-disable-rpath.patch

Disabling rpath is wrong, because it breaks usage on systems that
install gpsd into a prefix that isn't part of the default search path.
The right approach is to use rpath for the target environment (as
libtool does, or the same thing in a non-libtool world).

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