Unable to remove rpath from executable

Question

I am cross-compiling for an ARM platform. Amongst the many library files I'm linking, only a very few of them have an rpath.

I don't know where it is coming from, because I copied all libraries I needed into a single folder, and add them to the project with Netbeans (under Ubuntu with Linaro compiler). Even if I compile from command line the output is the same.

I tried patchelf, but it does not remove the rpath. The program per se works (for instance, if I create the path it is looking for when searching for libs).

Any idea how to fix it?

Answer 1

If you use cmake,

There is a builtin CMake option CMAKE_SKIP_RPATH, if it is enabled all other RPATH related options are ignored, no RPATH is built into anything.

http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_RPATH_handling

Answer 2

Have you tried using chrpath? , it might be available in your distribution packages