I can confirm that the RPATH is
```
RPATH: ':/usr//lib:/usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/openmpi/lib'
```
I'll just wait for the next ompi upload then.

Cheers,
Nico

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 2:10 PM Alastair McKinstry <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
> On 19/01/2017 11:20, James Cowgill wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 18/01/17 22:39, Nico Schlömer wrote:
> >> I'm co-maintaining the Trilinos package [1] in Debian and recently found
> >> a bunch of new lintian warnings of the kind
> >> binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath [2]. It say in the description of the
> warning:
> >> ```
> >> To fix this problem, look for link lines like:
> >>
> >> gcc test.o -o test -Wl,--rpath,/usr/local/lib
> >>
> >> or
> >>
> >> gcc test.o -o test -R/usr/local/lib
> >>
> >> and remove the -Wl,--rpath or -R argument.
> >> ```
> >> Indeed, the Trilinos installation contains many of those lines, but they
> >> are necessary too. When executing the test binaries (which are compiled
> >> in the build tree alongside the libraries), they have to find the linked
> >> shared libraries. Messing with the rpath is necessary.
> >>
> >> That's not true later on when the libraries are _installed_, of course.
> >> For this, CMake has the switch CMAKE_SKIP_INSTALL_RPATH [3], which
> >> serves exactly that purpose. For some reason, lintian doesn't seem to be
> >> happy with that though.
> > The CMAKE_SKIP_INSTALL_RPATH option only affects the rpaths which CMake
> > itself inserts. It does not affect any rpaths manually added with other
> > -Wl,--rpath options. The culprit here is probably openmpi which adds all
> > of these rpath entries:
> >
> > $ mpicc -show
> > [...] -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr//lib -Wl,-rpath
> > -Wl,/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openmpi/lib [...]
> >
> > Maybe it shouldn't do that. The /usr//lib one is clearly useless and the
> > it seems that most of the libraries from
> > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openmpi/lib are symlinked into
> > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu anyway.
> >
> Agreed. Will remove these on the next upload.
>
> Best regards
> Alastair
>
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