chore: simplify rpath handling

.cargo/config.toml

@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
 [target.'cfg(target_family="unix")']
 rustflags = [
     "-C", "force-frame-pointers=yes",
-    # Add dynamic DuckDB library directory to runtime search path.
-    "-C", "link-arg=-Wl,-rpath,$ORIGIN/../duckdb-v1.3.0",
-    "-C", "link-arg=-Wl,-rpath,$ORIGIN/../../duckdb-v1.3.0",
-    "-C", "link-arg=-Wl,-rpath,@executable_path/../duckdb-v1.3.0",
-    "-C", "link-arg=-Wl,-rpath,@executable_path/../../duckdb-v1.3.0"
 ]
 
 [target.wasm32-unknown-unknown]

.github/workflows/bench-pr.yml

@@ -131,7 +131,6 @@ jobs:
         shell: bash
         env:
           RUST_BACKTRACE: full
-          LD_LIBRARY_PATH: target/duckdb-v1.3.0
         run: |
           target/release_debug/${{ matrix.benchmark.id }} -d gh-json | tee ${{ matrix.benchmark.id }}.json
 

.github/workflows/sql-benchmarks.yml

@@ -140,7 +140,6 @@ jobs:
         shell: bash
         env:
           RUST_BACKTRACE: full
-          LD_LIBRARY_PATH: target/duckdb-v1.3.0
         run: |
           # Generate data, running each query once to make sure they don't panic.
           target/release_debug/${{ matrix.binary_name }} --targets datafusion:parquet -i1 -d gh-json --skip-duckdb-build
@@ -172,7 +171,6 @@ jobs:
           OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT: '${{ secrets.OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT }}'
           OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS: '${{ secrets.OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS }}'
           OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES: 'bench-name=${{ matrix.id }}'
-          LD_LIBRARY_PATH: target/duckdb-v1.3.0
         run: |
           target/release_debug/${{ matrix.binary_name }} \
             -d gh-json \
@@ -191,7 +189,6 @@ jobs:
           OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT: '${{ secrets.OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT }}'
           OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS: '${{ secrets.OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS }}'
           OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES: 'bench-name=${{ matrix.id }}'
-          LD_LIBRARY_PATH: target/duckdb-v1.3.0
         run: |
           target/release_debug/${{ matrix.binary_name }} \
               --use-remote-data-dir ${{ matrix.remote_storage }} \

bench-vortex/build.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#![allow(clippy::unwrap_used)]
+#![allow(clippy::expect_used)]
+use std::env;
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+
+/// Adds a dynamic linker runtime path pointing to the DuckDB dylib dir.
+///
+/// Setting an absolute rpath, if required by multiple binaries, is the most
+/// robust solution compared to using relative paths in terms of
+/// `-rpath,$ORIGIN` or `-rpath,@executable_path`.
+///
+/// Using an absolute rpath implies that binaries linking against the dynamic
+/// DuckDB library are never published.
+///
+/// Note that the rpath set in vortex-duckdb-ext's build.rs is not inherited by
+/// crates linking against it which is why consumers must set a rpath on their end.
+///
+/// The dynamic DuckDB library is preferred over the static version, as DuckDB's
+/// static lib is not self-contained. This means that it includes symbols which
+/// are not defined as part of the static library.
+fn main() {
+    const DUCKDB_VERSION: &str = "v1.3.0";
+    let manifest_dir = PathBuf::from(env::var("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR").unwrap());
+    let target_dir = manifest_dir.parent().unwrap().join("target");
+    let lib_path = target_dir.join(format!("duckdb-{DUCKDB_VERSION}"));
+    println!("cargo:rustc-link-arg=-Wl,-rpath,{}", lib_path.display());
+}

vortex-duckdb-ext/build.rs

@@ -8,14 +8,7 @@ const DUCKDB_BASE_URL: &str = "https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/releases/downloa
 
 fn download_duckdb_archive() -> Result<PathBuf, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
     let manifest_dir = PathBuf::from(env::var("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")?);
-    let workspace_root = manifest_dir
-        .parent()
-        .ok_or("Failed to get workspace root")?;
-
-    let target_dir = env::var("CARGO_TARGET_DIR")
-        .map(PathBuf::from)
-        .unwrap_or_else(|_| workspace_root.join("target"));
-
+    let target_dir = manifest_dir.parent().unwrap().join("target");
     let duckdb_dir = target_dir.join(format!("duckdb-{DUCKDB_VERSION}"));
 
     let target = env::var("TARGET")?;