Re: Feature request: setting env vars for binary wrappers

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Paolo,

* Paolo Bonzini wrote on Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:32:23PM CEST:
> In GNU Smalltalk, "./gst" is used if you don't need to load any plugin,  
> while "tests/gst" is used if you need plugins; "tests/gst" is created by  
> config.status.  Most of the time launching "./gst" is enough; and since  
> its startup time is much faster than "tests/gst", I didn't feel the need  
> to use the more user-friendly executable as the default.

But consider that, if libtool creates a shell wrapper anyway, your
tests/gst setup now means it goes through two shell wrappers before
launching the real thing.  Behdad requests an optimization of this:
one shell wrapper is created, by libtool (since it may already create
one anyway).  I don't see the fact that it may sometimes be unneeded
for libtool's purposes (and only created for Behdad because he used
the env vars option) as a problem at all.

This discussion has dragged along quite a bit now.  I will try to
remain silent now until I've had time to redo the actual patch.

Cheers,
Ralf