Bug 716669 - gnome-shell uses RPATH
Summary: gnome-shell uses RPATH
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 716572
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-shell
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Owen Taylor
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-06-26 08:38 UTC by Tim Cuthbertson
Modified: 2011-06-26 12:03 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of: 716572
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Last Closed: 2011-06-26 12:03:28 UTC
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Description Tim Cuthbertson 2011-06-26 08:38:57 UTC 
Description of problem:
The gnome-shell binary in /usr/bin/gnome-shell uses a hard-coded RPATH in the elf binary. This is advised against in the fedora packaging guidelines, and thwarts efforts to use (for example) a custom mutter library.

At the very least, the system path (/usr/lib64) should be removed from rpath as it serves no purpose.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.0.2


Steps to Reproduce:
$ readelf --dynamic /usr/bin/gnome-shell | grep RPATH
 0x000000000000000f (RPATH)              Library rpath: [/usr/lib64:/usr/lib64/gnome-shell:/usr/lib64/gnome-bluetooth]
Comment 1 Elad Alfassa 2011-06-26 10:24:57 UTC 
/usr/lib64 was removed from gnome shell's RPATH in https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnome-shell-3.0.2-4.fc15



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Comment 2 Tim Cuthbertson 2011-06-26 12:03:28 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 716572 ***
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