* Roumen Petrov wrote on Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 08:53:12PM CEST: > > In some cases application depend from other services. > In this case a specific to project wrapper script has to run services, > to check if service is run, to run project application and when > application finish to stop service. The test can be run from makefile.
With all due respect, but I think you haven't understood the problem case Behdad is trying to solve. It's very simple: packages have a test suite, or developers merely want to run uninstalled programs, before they install them (in a new place, or overwriting earlier versions of the programs and libraries). In order to ensure the uninstalled program uses only other uninstalled stuff, one typically sets some variables, for example $PATH, $LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or equivalents on other systems), tst_aclocaldir (this is specific to the Libtool package itself), ... The LD_LIBRARY_PATH thing (but portable) is already handled by libtool. Why should it not also handle other variables, given that it would be *very easy to do*? Thanks, Ralf
