PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH for build time commands

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Mon Feb 13 18:15:02 CET 2006


On Monday 13 February 2006 10:13, you wrote:
> On Saturday 11 February 2006 18:00, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
...
> > How about kdelibs when compiling other kde modules like kdebase ?
> > Is a "working kdelibs environment" required ?
>
> Yes, we need to be able to execute e.g. kde-config.
>
> > If so, what do you think about this ?
> > http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-buildsystem/2006-February/000836.html
>
> That looks different. That's setting variables that point into the kdelibs
> builddir, and I think that should be done automatically by the build
> system, not by the user compiling kdelibs. Ah but I think that's what you
> did in the script there? 

Yes.

> That looks ok to me, but it only solves the problem if not using RPATH in
> the binaries (since RPATH has priority over LD_LIBRARY_PATH) -

Isn't this what we need ?

> unless using the new flags, see the mails from Thiago.

Do you mean RUN_PATH ? Do we want it ? If so, is then everything ok ? In which 
way does it differ from RPATH ? Does it exist on all platforms (except 
windows) ?

Bye
Alex
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