On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Josh Boyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Commit 5c1de006e8e66 (cpupower Makefile change to help run the tool > without 'make install') added an rpath to the cpupower binary. From > what I can understand, this is to make it easier to run cpupower from > the local build directory without having to run make install. It does > accomplish that, but it also leaves the binary with the rpath in it > which is considered bad practice. It also causes cpupower to fail in > rpmbuild with the following error: > > ERROR 0004: file '/usr/bin/cpupower' contains an insecure rpath './' > in [./] > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.A6u26r (%install) > Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.A6u26r (%install) > > I understand the want for eased development, but couldn't people just > set LD_LIBRARY_PATH instead?
No comments on this? Should I just send a revert patch instead? josh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

