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On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > about the only use i can think of for these LD_LIBRARY_PATHs is when you > > go to run `make check`, so perhaps the setting of this variable should be > > restricted to that case ? > > Hmm, I have not checked the Makefiles, but if LD_LIBRARY_PATH has to be > set during a build to access newly-built uninstalled libraries, then I am > fairly sure `libtool --mode=execute' should be used instead. I presume > this is a piece of legacy setup, like quite a lot of bits scattered > through Makefiles, not sure which legacy pulled this in, but the code didnt exist in older binutils ... it got merged as part of the recent libtool update i believe. see RPATH_ENVVAR usage in configure and toplevel Makefiles. > but since we have got libtool in place now, why not > actually make use of it? i'm certainly all for this :) -mike
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