Re: Phase `validate-runpath' fails: lib not in RUNPATH

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> writes:

> I'm trying to build thunderbird ATM, modelled after the build for icecat.
>
> Phase `validate-runpath' fails with errors like this:
>
>     /gnu/store/…-thunderbird-45.4.0/lib/firefox-45.4.1/browser/components/libbrowsercomps.so:
>     error: depends on 'libplds4.so', which cannot be found in RUNPATH
>
>     /gnu/store/…-thunderbird-45.4.0/lib/firefox-devel-45.4.1/sdk/lib/libxul.so:
>     error: depends on 'libnspr4.so', which cannot be found in RUNPATH
>
> Any hint what this can be caused by?

This happens when libraries are referenced that are not in the default
library location of this package’s output directory.

In the package for R we have a similar situation and fix it by passing
these make flags:

       #:make-flags
       (list (string-append "LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath="
                            (assoc-ref %outputs "out")
                            "/lib/R/lib"))

This adds the “/lib/R/lib” directory to the RUNPATH, so that references
to these libraries can be properly embedded.

~~ Ricardo