Bug#558960: libmpich2-dev: mpicc.mpich2 unconditionally sets RPATH in compiled binaries

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 30/11/09 at 15:40 -0800, Nicholas Breen wrote:
> Package: libmpich2-dev
> Version: 1.2.1-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> mpicc needlessly sets RPATH in all binaries it compiles, causing any package
> built with it to fail the relevant lintian check:
> 
> % mpicc.mpich2 -show
> cc -g -O2 -g -Wall -O2 -I/usr/include/mpich2 -L/usr/lib -L/usr/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -lmpich -lopa -lpthread -lrt
>                                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Hi Pavan,

What do you think about this bug report? It sounds like something that
should be fixed upstream, not just in Debian.

There's more information at http://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue.
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