Hi, Apoorv via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org> writes:
> I want to make a suggestion for a feature for guix shell. > > I was recently writing guix.scm files for my projects and was having > problem with the libraries I added, not being found inside the > shell. After struggling for hours I finally learned that that the > LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not being updated automatically inside the guix > shell environment so the libraries can be found easily. > > So my feature suggestion is that maybe we can have a flag or a option > for guix shell, something like --add-ld-path or --update-ld-path for > example, to add all libraries specified in the guix.scm or even as > sub-command guix shell --add-ld-path mesa as an example, to > automatically update the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to > contain the correct paths to these libraries so they can be found > easily inside the shell. Guix doesn't/shouldn't make use of LD_LIBRARY_PATH, except in rare cases to wrap binaries. It's better to patch the dlopen calls to use the absolute shared library file name. Perhaps you are missing the package configuring LIBRARY_PATH and other useful environment variables for finding libraries? That'd be gcc-toolchain, if I recall correctly. -- Thanks, Maxim
