Hi @matthewfeickert @agoose77 so, (with the stressed disclaimer that i still lack a lot of knowledge about the python ecosystem) i found these bits of info: 1. RPATH vs RUNPATH : RPATH is search _before_ LD_LIBRARY_PATH while RUNPATH after it. so i would say, that for python bindings RPATH should be used and pointing to the xrootd binary libs from `$(python3 -m site --user-site)/pyxrootd/lib64` lib64 on rhel family, lib on debian family. this way, the libraries will always be found and we can avoid any problems given by LD_LIBRARY_PATH (the python bindings come as a package, we should not risk any mixing of some other versions) 2. i'm not sure how $ORIGIN is supposed to work as RUNPATH, as this is the location of an executable, but what is the executable in this case? 3. wheel vs egg : before some fancy/new/latest building tools (pybind11/scikit-build) that would be required to work on centos7/python3.6 i think that we should establish why is egg used instead of wheel .. from what i see in packaging/wheel/publish.sh a sdist wheel should be created not an egg one .. so, anyone any idea what is going on? Thanks a lot! -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/issues/1668#issuecomment-1089969361 You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Message ID: <[log in to unmask]> ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-DEV list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-DEV&A=1