Re: [PATCH] gnu: kde: Add kdelibs.

[Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>]

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:
> As usual, the libraries and binaries are not explicitly linked with the
> libraries they depend on. So in a context where the input libraries are not
> in /usr/lib, executing binaries fails.
>
> In my private branch I also tried to compile a few KDE packages. The same
> problem everywhere: Unless I set an LD_LIBRARY_PATH, they do not find the
> necessary KDE and Qt libraries. I think we need a more general solution,
> as also witnessed by this:

I'm working on dconf and I had the same problem: the produced binaries
like dconf-edit, but even shared libraries produced by the build would
not find their own companions. Initially I did set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
resolve the problem.  However, after setting

       #:configure-flags
       ;; Set the correct RUNPATH in binaries.
       (list (string-append "LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath="
                            (assoc-ref %outputs "out") "/lib"))

at build time, everything was working fine without having to set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH. That is not in dconf and not in packages build against
dconf's libraries.

Regards,
Fede