Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 10:29:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Marino Ladavac <lada@pc8811.gud.siemens.at> To: (FTG staff) <jin@george.lbl.gov> Cc: jdp@polstra.com, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ld for loading dynamic library changed in 3.0-RELEASE? Message-ID: <XFMail.981023102944.lada@pc8811.gud.siemens.at> In-Reply-To: <199810230034.RAA09461@george.lbl.gov>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 23-Oct-98 FTG staff wrote: >> Whether it is used at link time varies from system to system. Under >> SunOS, it was used at link time. But under Linux, for example, it >> apparently is not. I say that because they use the same ELF tools we >> do, and the code simply isn't there to use LD_LIBRARY_PATH at link >> time. > > Can we improve it? LD_LIBRARY_PATH is a UN*X environment variable > which is used for all UNIX platforms, but may not for Linux. > I think it is not a hard job. s/all UNIX platforms/all UNIX platforms I have been using and that is not that many/ HP-UX uses SHLIB_PATH as an exclusively run-time variable. Setting run paths on HPUX means jumping through hoops (it can be done; it is messy). SINIX did overload the meaning of LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but it doesn't seem to do that any longer. It always did support LD_RUN_PATH. LD_LIBRARY_PATH is a run-time variable. If you want to set library paths during linking use the LD_RUN_PATH instead. This has changed even on SysVR4 because the LD_LIBRARY_PATH overload was too confusing. /Marino To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?XFMail.981023102944.lada>