[Rdkit-devel] Building rdkit to avoid using LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[Richard W. <r.h...@gm...>]

I am using RDKit as part of a web app, and when running on a shared web server I do not have control over the LD_LIBRARY_PATH of the Apache process. This made it rather hard to get working using the regular installation instructions, leading to lots of undefined symbol ImportErrors.  I tried various CMake options, but couldn't get it to set or leave the RPATH intact when installing.

I finally found a way, using patchelf (http://nixos.org/patchelf.html) to re-set the RPATH on each of the compiled library files. Something like:

$ cd $RDBASE
$ find . -name \*.so -exec patchelf --set-rpath $RDBASE/lib {} \;

and have finally got it working.

Is there a better way to do this?
(eg. some CMake options I couldn't find or understand)

Thanks,
Richard

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