rpath editors (was Re: Installation proposal)

[Zack Weinberg]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 06:43:58PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
...
> libtool to protect users from unintended RPATHs implicitly added by
> stupid linkers.

It occurs to me that a lot of the problems with RPATHs could be
mitigated by the existence of a utility to edit them in place at
install time, without needing to relink the binary from scratch.  An
idle web search turns up chrpath[1] and elfhack[2].  Could something
like this be rolled into binutils?

zw

[1] http://freshmeat.net/projects/chrpath
[2] http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~klaren/software