Re: [PATCH] Detect the default libpath on aix (to fix MPI support!)

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Monday 23 July 2001 8:35 pm, address@hidden wrote:
> I don't know if it is a problem or not (probably not), but this patch
> will make things sensitive to the LIBPATH environment variable.

That depends...  Can you think of a case where this might cause an 
uninstalled application to pick up an installed library from an earlier build 
instead of the to-be-installed library in the build tree?  Or worse, where an 
installed application will continue to use the uninstalled library from the 
build tree even after it has been installed?

If either of these can happen, then it is definitely a bug that ought to be 
addressed.

> It may also include the whacko path the gcc seems to like to insert.

I think that is okay.  Although I guess it could be removed by getting gcc to 
print that path (--print-ld-path or something?) and comparing with the dump 
-H output.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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