On Monday 11 October 2010, John Ralls wrote: > On Oct 11, 2010, at 12:02 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: > > You even imply more than I intended. If I understand your reasoning > > correctly, (DY)LD_LIBRARY_PATH should contain paths for shared libraries > > only, while GnuCash' loadable modules should be in a directory that's NOT > > in (DY)LD_LIBRARY_PATH. > > GnuCash effectively has all of its loadable modules in lib/gnucash. This > > is what GNC_MODULE_PATH is set to by default. > > So to follow your reasoning, GNC_MODULE_PATH should not even be added to > > (DY)LD_LIBRARY_PATH ever ? Not in the gnc_module code, nor in the > > launcher scripts ? > > Since gnc-modules.c does it's own search of GNC_MODULE_PATH, there should > be no reason to add it to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. > Yes, that's how I understood as well from my study.
> (I went a bit overboard in my earlier letter. I should have checked the > manpage first: dlopen will search LD_LIBRARY_PATH if it's given a filename > with no file separators in it, so there's a case for using it in other > programs that don't have their own search mechanism.) > As far as I'm concerned, I agree here. I'll remove the LD_LIBRARY_PATH modifying code from gnc_module, together with the blending of GNC_MODULE_PATH with LD_LIBRARY_PATH via environment and friends, and see if all still continues to work. Thanks for your feedback. Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
