Including an rpath pointing into the libdir is generally awkward when that is the default platform libdir. It is at best redundant, and at worst messes around with the load order. It overrides LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

How does homebrew usually handle rpaths?

This might help: mesonbuild/meson@78e9009

How does homebrew usually handle rpaths?

usually we would just adopt the upstream build and dont care about it.

I do see for cmake builds, we did specify the rpath as well (which is quite similar in this case)

Sounds good for me.
@eli-schwartz Do you think we can move forward?

usually we would just adopt the upstream build and dont care about it.

If you don't care about it, then does that mean other meson packages in homebrew don't need this?

I do see for cmake builds, we did specify the rpath as well (which is quite similar in this case)

You specify the rpath how? Patching out CMakeLists.txt files?

usually we would just adopt the upstream build and dont care about it.

If you don't care about it, then does that mean other meson packages in homebrew don't need this?

by "I dont care about it", meaning we adopt the upstream defaults (in this case, it certainly does not apply as it failed the tools build due to the rpath issue)

I do see for cmake builds, we did specify the rpath as well (which is quite similar in this case)

You specify the rpath how? Patching out CMakeLists.txt files?

yeah, patching PATH for cmake builds wrt rpath

I dont quite comprehend the challenging of merging this PR (and it would certainly helpful for other people to do the meson builds for tools)

Let's merge it, we can always modify it later.

thanks @asoulier! appreciate it!

How does homebrew usually handle rpaths?

We usually add the appropriate -Wl,-rpath flags to LDFLAGS¹, but that doesn't seem to be respected here: Homebrew/homebrew-core#167734 (comment)

Not sure if this is due to a recent change in meson.

You specify the rpath how? Patching out CMakeLists.txt files?

We set CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH when needed.

Okay. In that case I think this is the answer:

This might help: mesonbuild/meson@78e9009

Normally the LDFLAGS are respected here. At least, it was tested to work on Linux. ;)

The problem is that Darwin took a different codepath... This was reported by Gentoo Prefix -- and also fixed by Gentoo Prefix. So I'm optimistic that the same fix will work for Homebrew as well. Can you try backporting it to the meson formula?

The problem is that Darwin took a different codepath... This was reported by Gentoo Prefix -- and also fixed by Gentoo Prefix. So I'm optimistic that the same fix will work for Homebrew as well. Can you try backporting it to the meson formula?

maybe we can try in the 1.4.1 release? Looks like it would come pretty soon, right?

will do this afternoon, I need to add a test case (HFP) for LC3 certification.