[Boost-build] Option to turn off rpath?

Subject: [Boost-build] Option to turn off rpath?
From: Steve M. Robbins (steve_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-07 01:54:29

Hi,

Sometime between 1.42 and 1.44, boost started building shared libs
using -rpath.  (I'm a little behind ... just packaging 1.44 for Debian
now).

So the first problem is that the default rpath is /usr/bin, which is
wrong.  The unix convention is to separate binaries and libraries.
The libraries are in /usr/lib, so that's what I'd expect for the
search path.

The second problem is that rpath is not appropriate for everyone.
Debian, for example (http://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue), strongly
discourages its use.  So I patched Debian packages to not use rpath.
Could this be turned into a bjam option?

Regards,
-Steve