Re: Setting environment variable in libtool wrapper?

[Geoffrey Hutchison]

Hi,

This may sound like a strange request, but for my project, libtool is  
used to generate the shared libs and binaries using automake. We also  
generate a series of plugins as shared modules (with -module). We  
have our own dlopen routines, so we don't use libltdl.

In particular, our loader routines will check an environment variable  
for a list of directories to search. This enables us to easily load  
the modules from the build directory.

What I'd really like to do is to set this environment variable inside  
the libtool wrapper generated for each binary. The default value can  
easily be determined at ./configure time.

Any suggestions? The documentation wasn't too helpful, and I did  
think about possible autoconf/automake tricks. But automake doesn't  
let you easily insert an "export ${VAR}" into a target AFAICT, and  
I'd rather do it at build/execution time rather than configure-time.

Thanks very much in advance,
-Geoff