This patch removes a part of meson that clears the rpath upon installation. This will only be applied to a special version of meson, used for the meson-build-system. Patch by Peter Mikkelsen --- meson-0.42.0/mesonbuild/scripts/meson_install.py.orig 2017-09-09 01:49:39.147374148 +0200 +++ meson-0.42.0/mesonbuild/scripts/meson_install.py 2017-09-09 01:51:01.209134717 +0200 @@ -391,14 +391,6 @@ print("Symlink creation does not work on this platform. " "Skipping all symlinking.") printed_symlink_error = True - if os.path.isfile(outname): - try: - depfixer.fix_rpath(outname, install_rpath, False) - except SystemExit as e: - if isinstance(e.code, int) and e.code == 0: - pass - else: - raise def run(args): global install_log_file