On Mon, 18 Apr 2022, Richard Purdie wrote:
As I understand it the dynamic loader has a set of search paths it falls back to (sys_lib_dlsearch_path in libtool). An RPATH or RUNPATH entry matching a system loader path isn't usually of much use, it just takes up space.
It is of use since it influences the search order. For example, if /usr/local/lib is in the system loader path, and the user installs a library in /usr/local/lib, then the user likely wants the library she has just installed to be used by apps which link with it, rather than some similar library in the default system loader path.
Likewise, it is pointless to install a library which will never be used.
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