Why do we have the -rpath option on by default?

It creates a serious problem for us.  Say we build
a Winelib application for customer X.  By default,
that app is built with -rpath=/usr/lib/wine.

However, that app relies on specific library versions
of Wine.  Even if I start my app with 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/x/wine/lib, the X application
will actually use the /usr/lib/wine shared objects.

I would like to submit a patch to disable rpath
by default, and add a '--enable-rpath[=DIR]' configure
options.  Objections?

Jer

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