When : when building perl bindings. Without this patch, it does not take care of LDFLAGS. Why : It is required if you want to customize your own LDFLAGS, example : for hardening Upstream : https://www.prelude-siem.org/issues/761 It should be added in the next version of Prelude. --- a/bindings/perl/Makefile.PL.in +++ b/bindings/perl/Makefile.PL.in @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ my %attributs = (NAME => 'Prelude', INC => '-I@top_builddir@ -I@top_builddir@/src/include -I@top_srcdir@/src/include -I@top_builddir@/src/libprelude-error -I@top_srcdir@/bindings/c++/include', LIBS => ["-L@top_builddir@/src/.libs -lprelude -L@top_builddir@/bindings/c++/.libs -lpreludecpp", "-L$ENV{LIBDIR} -lprelude @LIBPRELUDE_LIBS@ @LIBADD_DL@ @LTLIBTHREAD@" ], - LDDLFLAGS => "-L@top_builddir@/src/.libs $Config{lddlflags}"); + LDDLFLAGS => "-L@top_builddir@/src/.libs $Config{lddlflags} @LDFLAGS@,-rpath"); if ( abs_path("@top_srcdir@") ne abs_path("@top_builddir@") ) { foreach my $filename ( qw/Prelude.cxx Prelude.pm/ ) {