On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 20:03, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Otherwise, dollars (such as in the special $ORIGIN rpath) are
> eaten by Make.
Incidentally, why are we using rpath anyway? I'm pretty
sure the old build system didn't need it, and it's one of
those features I have mentally filed away under "liable
to confusing and non-portable weirdness"...
It's only done in the build tree, to allow running against uninstalled shared_library. Installed binaries have no rpath (distros don't want it anyway). QEMU doesn't need it since it has no shared library yet.
Paolo