Re: gobject-introspection typelibs and shared libraries

[Ludovic Courtès]

Federico Beffa <address@hidden> skribis:

> currently the typelib files used by gobject-introspection can't find
> shared libraries and require setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

I don’t know much about all this; could you give some context?  What’s a
typelib files exactly?

> I would like to propose to adopt the attached patch from the nix folk
> which should fix that and refer to shared libraries by absolute path.

Is the output of gir-scanner(?) used on the linker command line?
Normally, our ld-wrapper handles adding a RUNPATH for any library listed
as -l on the linker command line.

Thanks,
Ludo’.