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From: Jason Petersen <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: enable-rpath in Red Hat builds
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 15:12:20 -0600
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I hadn’t noticed until recently that --enable-rpath is passed to configure on Red Hat PostgreSQL builds and inherited by all extensions (via pg_config) on that platform. rpmlint complains about it on several Red Hat variants (well, in fact it _errors_).

Poking around mailing lists and git history, I was able to ascertain that it wasn’t always this way, with some caveats around how plperl and plpython are build on these platforms.

Does anyone have a pointer as to why this was changed for PostgreSQL itself? Or when?

Do extensions need to worry about this? I see some that use e.g. chrpath on binaries, but without understanding the reason PostgreSQL itself uses an rpath-enabled build I didn’t want to add that.

Planning on just filtering this rpmlint error for now, but I am curious for the motivation.

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Jason Petersen
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