Re: $ORIGIN

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 12:49:54PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> What does pkgsrc do to $ORIGIN and why?

It (the wrappers) removes all traces of it from the linker command
line, so no binaries created by pkgsrc will have a $ORIGIN.

The reasoning is that the meaning of shared libs is not "position indepent"
with $ORIGIN (exactly as that is what it is about), so it is unclear if
the same libs will be used in the build directory as in the final installed
version. Proponents of this behaviour will find more harsh words for the
misbehaviour with $ORIGIN present ;-)

Martin