In a discussion we had yesterday, Ludovic mentioned the need to pass a special flag to the cmake configure phase to modify the rpath of installed libraries, as done for the package slim. I then noticed I needed the same flag for clucene. The attached patch applies it globally in the cmake build system. This should also avoid the need for the add-libs-to-runpath phase in the gmsh package Eric Bavier posted yesterday. In slim, there is another flag: ;; Don't build libslim.so, because then the build ;; system is unable to set the right RUNPATH on the ;; 'slim' binary. "-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF" I wonder if we should instead use another of the rpath setting variables given at http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_RPATH_handling Moreover, libclucene-core.so needs to be linked to libclucene-shared.so.1 from the same package. Here we usually employ patchelf, but maybe yet again a cmake flag could solve the problem directly. Comments from cmake specialists are very welcome! Andreas