This support script ends up hardcoding unnecessary rpaths into the libraries. We will search $libdir automatically so this is just wastes space. There may be some cases this is necessary but our use cases aren't one of them. Upstream-Status: Inappropriate RP 2012/2/23 Index: readline-6.2/support/shobj-conf =================================================================== --- readline-6.2.orig/support/shobj-conf 2012-02-23 11:06:37.193179379 +0000 +++ readline-6.2/support/shobj-conf 2012-02-23 11:06:50.049178918 +0000 @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ SHOBJ_LD='${CC}' SHOBJ_LDFLAGS='-shared -Wl,-soname,$@' - SHLIB_XLDFLAGS='-Wl,-rpath,$(libdir) -Wl,-soname,`basename $@ $(SHLIB_MINOR)`' + SHLIB_XLDFLAGS='-Wl,-soname,`basename $@ $(SHLIB_MINOR)`' SHLIB_LIBVERSION='$(SHLIB_LIBSUFF).$(SHLIB_MAJOR)$(SHLIB_MINOR)' ;;