Re: 7.2b2 "make check" failure on Red Hat Linux 7.2

* Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> [011116 16:56]:
> teg(at)redhat(dot)com (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=) writes:
> > Since it works when prefix isn't /usr, I'd guess that the build
> > process sets rpath. This takes precedence over LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> > Fix? Don't use rpath - it's evil, and should be avoided anyway.
>
> Peter, any thoughts on that? It's not clear to me that removing
> rpath settings would be an improvement overall, even if it makes
> "make check" more reliable.
My general take is rpath is a *GOOD* thing, as it prevents USERS from
not being able to find REQUIRED shared libs.

I vote for it staying.

LER

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