linux-kernel - Re: Bad rpath in cpupower with 4.0-rcX

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Date:	Tue, 10 Mar 2015 08:33:54 -0400
From:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
Cc:	"sriram@...irs.net.in" <sriram@...irs.net.in>,
	Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bad rpath in cpupower with 4.0-rcX

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Commit 5c1de006e8e66 (cpupower Makefile change to help run the tool
> without 'make install') added an rpath to the cpupower binary.  From
> what I can understand, this is to make it easier to run cpupower from
> the local build directory without having to run make install.  It does
> accomplish that, but it also leaves the binary with the rpath in it
> which is considered bad practice.  It also causes cpupower to fail in
> rpmbuild with the following error:
>
> ERROR   0004: file '/usr/bin/cpupower' contains an insecure rpath './'
> in [./]
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.A6u26r (%install)
>     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.A6u26r (%install)
>
> I understand the want for eased development, but couldn't people just
> set LD_LIBRARY_PATH instead?

No comments on this?  Should I just send a revert patch instead?

josh
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