[ros-users] [Discourse.ros.org] [Packaging and Release Management] Is it a good practice to force `RPATH` to be embedded in the installed targets?

[Martin Günther]

[quote="mani, post:4, topic:1335"]
I really liked the env-based method. I've never fully understood how env tag is deprecated but is still referenced in the documentation. Does your method work on Kinetic? 
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It definitely still works on Indigo, and I suspect it also works in Kinetic.

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I've seen the wrapper script method mentioned by @de-vri-es in other projects. I think I will go with that solution for now. The downside is running any node via rosrun CLI is going to be a hassle for end users.
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Why? They can directly `rosrun` the wrapper script, so that's a point for the wrapper script.

On the other hand, the `env` element has the advantage that you can easily use launch file args to specify the location of the other libraries (like the `basler_tof_path` arg in my example above).

For a non-deprecated alternative to the `env` element, I like the suggestion by @de-vri-es to call the `env` command instead. You could even put it into the `launch-prefix` element of the roslaunch XML node tag.






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