> it seems to be that this is wrong.  we do *not* want to write $DESTDIR/usr/lib
> as the runtime path into each binary.. i want my install binaries to use the
> normal, standard, path, not some random, ah-hoc directory, that i decided to
> use as my $DESTDIR for this build.

That's nice, but unfortunately ld(1) uses the rpath to find dependent
libraries during the link.  Without that change, cross-compiling many
executables was not possible.

I'd certainly prefer some other way of solving the problem.