Re: Why is Guile now setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

[Mark H Weaver]

On 09/13/2012 07:30 PM, Bruce Korb wrote:
> On 09/11/12 09:21, Bruce Korb wrote:
> > > Do you have any solutions meeting this criteria in mind?
> >
> > Wrap your dlopen's in code that pushes the needed values to the environment
>
> I have a better solution that does not require serializing environment
> variable access:  do your own search.  Do full path dlopen-s first,
> using the paths you otherwise would have put into LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> If they fail, then fall back to whatever the glibc would otherwise
> do (maybe even using LD_LIBRARY_PATH -- it hasn't been touched).

I haven't looked closely at the relevant code, but I tend to agree with 
Bruce here.  We should not change LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  We should do the 
search ourselves.

     Mark