Re: RPATH on 64-bit arches

[Brad Walker]

> Chip Coldwell wrote:
>
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253872
> >
> > Basically, the problem is that the current definition of the autoconf
> > macro _AC_PATH_X_XMKMF causes the emacs build process to insert an
> > RPATH into the 64-bit binary.  Personally, I feel this is a bug in
> > autoconf, so perhaps this is the wrong forum to bring it up.  FWIW, I
> > have this patch to fix it:
>
> Can't we add a workaround for this in configure.in (see below)?
> Patching configure is a nuisance, and almost guaranteed to get lost
> after it gets regenerated a few times.
>
> This doesn't seem to cause any real harm (?), so is probably not worth
> fixing in Emacs 22.

If another 22 point release is planned, and the patch committed on
Saturday to HEAD fixes the problem without causing others, can it be included
in the next Emacs 22? An upstream package without the fix won't cause
any problems, but Fedora wouldn't need to carry the patch as long, and who
knows when Emacs 23 will come out.

Brad Walker