[caolan@Nom ~]$ echo "int main() { return 0;}" | gcc -x c -Wl,-rpath,'$ORIGIN' -
[caolan@Nom ~]$ readelf -d a.out | grep ORIGIN
 0x000000000000000f (RPATH)              Library rpath: [$ORIGIN]
[caolan@Nom ~]$ ./a.out
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/dl-origin.c: 85:
_dl_get_origin: Assertion `str[0] == '/'' failed!
[caolan@Nom ~]$ echo $?
127
[caolan@Nom ~]$ `pwd`/a.out
[caolan@Nom ~]$ echo $?

i.e. executing a binary with a RPATH of $ORIGIN fails if an absolute patch to
the binary is not used

glibc-2.8.90-10.x86_64