Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH - disappear of libdir after patch

[Peter O'Gorman]

Hi Paul,

On 03/12/2012 10:47 AM, Paul Seidler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> running the test suite of eina-1.1 with 1.0 installed and
> libtool-2.4{.2,} the tests will fail (symbol lookup errors) because of
> the LD_LIBRARY_PATH (same with glib, gst-plugins-base, ...). The libdir
> is in front of the "test-path":
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib64:/home/sepek/dev/eina-1.1.0/src/lib/.libs:
> $LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
>
> I don't get this with newer libtool versions (from git), "/usr/lib64:"
> is no more in LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I traced it down to
> 06c6555d4a77a5e91f43da3451586534da93e0ae. With a cherry-picked version
> everything works fine (with 2.4.2) but if I understand the complete
> message correct it shouldn't affect the functionality of libtool?! At
> least the tests of libtool throw no error.
>
> So my Question: Is this behavior intentional?

That particular patch wasn't supposed to have changed anything, all it's 
meant to have done is remove quoting where it's not needed.

/usr/lib64 appearing in LD_LIBRARY_PATH is because libtool is brain dead 
in its detection of "system" library locations. Most vendors have 
patched their libtools to work around this, e.g.:

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=libtool.git;a=blob;f=libtool-2.2.10-rpath.patch;h=d0d6d82178642658e6aca5a28d36813158980ca3;hb=HEAD

Perhaps somehow libtool.m4 bits of your vendor patched libtool are 
getting used?

Peter