On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 23:38 +0300, Roumen Petrov wrote: > > > I think that all above is out of libtool scope. > It's is exceptional project specific (lets skip cross-compilation > environment) and is subject of project regression test suite. > The project is responsible to set appropriate test environment before > to run regression test. > Please let me know when I don't understand request properly.
It's not about regression testing at all. It's about making binaries in uninstalled builds work. For example, many GNOME applications need to load their UI from XML files. If you build and not install them and try to run from the build dir, not surprisingly, the XML file is not found at destination, and the program will fail to start. With my proposed additions, programs can for example check for an env var for an alternative prefix, and the Makefile.am can pass that information to libtool to put into the wrapper. Then running from uninstalled build will work. If running uninstalled build is not a goal, why bother about LD_LIBRARY_PATH'ing the uninstalled library path at all? > Roumen Cheers, -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
