This support script ends up hardcoding unnecessary rpaths into the libraries. We will search $libdir automatically so this is just wastes space. There may be some cases this is necessary but our use cases aren't one of them. Upstream-Status: Inappropriate Signed-off-by: Saul Wold Index: readline-5.2/support/shobj-conf =================================================================== --- readline-5.2.orig/support/shobj-conf +++ readline-5.2/support/shobj-conf @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ linux*-*|gnu*-*|k*bsd*-gnu-*) SHOBJ_LD='${CC}' SHOBJ_LDFLAGS='-shared -Wl,-soname,$@' - SHLIB_XLDFLAGS='-Wl,-rpath,$(libdir) -Wl,-soname,`basename $@ $(SHLIB_MINOR)`' + SHLIB_XLDFLAGS='-Wl,-soname,`basename $@ $(SHLIB_MINOR)`' SHLIB_LIBVERSION='$(SHLIB_LIBSUFF).$(SHLIB_MAJOR)$(SHLIB_MINOR)' ;;