[asterisk-bugs] [JIRA] Created: (ASTERISK-20407) Asterisk compilation doesn't set rpath when --prefix is something other that /usr

[David M. Lee (JIRA)]

Asterisk compilation doesn't set rpath when --prefix is something other that /usr
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                 Key: ASTERISK-20407
                 URL: https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-20407
             Project: Asterisk
          Issue Type: Bug
      Security Level: None
          Components: Core/BuildSystem
    Affects Versions: 11.0.0-beta1
            Reporter: David M. Lee
            Severity: Minor


When Asterisk is compiled with {{--prefix}} set to something other than {{/usr}}, it fails to startup on Linux.

{code:none}
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/asterisk
$ make all install
$ /opt/asterisk/sbin/asterisk
/opt/asterisk/sbin/asterisk: error while loading shared libraries: libasteriskssl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
{code}

This is because the Asterisk build scripts do not to set the {{-rpath}} [linker option|http://linux.die.net/man/1/ld], which would allow the {{asterisk}} executable to automagically find the {{libasteriskssl.so}} shared object. This wasn't a problem before Asterisk 11, because there were no non-system shared objects for Asterisk to link to at startup.

h3. Workarounds

# Specify the linker flag to configure
{code:none}
$ LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath=/opt/asterisk/lib" ./configure --prefix=/opt/asterisk
{code}
# Specify {{LD_LIBRARY_PATH}} when launching
{code:none}
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/asterisk/lib
$ /opt/asterisk/sbin/asterisk
{code}
# Use [{{chrpath}}|http://linux.die.net/man/1/chrpath] to add rpath to the exe after the fact.
{code:none}
$ chrpath -r /opt/asterisk/lib /opt/asterisk/sbin/asterisk
{code}

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