autoconf / libtool / the dreaded rpath

[Wintaki Hagabashi]

Hi, We are using autoconf with libtool 1.5.6.  How can we disable libtools use 
of rpath?  It is causing us trouble.  The problem is we are building libraries 
that are then later shipped and installed on other systems.  We can not control 
where they get installed since it is a customer's system. 
Now what happened was the rpath embedded in our .so's happened to partially 
match a broken NFS mount on a customers site.  This then caused the system to 
hang for a long time when trying to start the apps because the system tried to 
look in the rpath that was not valid. 
  
I really don't see the need for rpath at all, maybe it makes sense on other 
systems, but we are on Linux & Solaris. Is there a way to disable this?  I 
googled a bit but most of the discussions seem to be from around 1999 on the 
debian mailing list. 
 
I see a macro called AC_LIB_RPATH in many acinclude.m4's when I did a google 
search - what is this macro?  Where does it come from?
 Thanks for any info, very much appreciated.
 
 
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