Comments on: Wrong usage of LD_LIBRARY_PATH

By: Elmar Stellnberger

Elmar Stellnberger — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:14:17 +0000

Yes, I would think of it as a bug, too:
If the current dir is to be included into LD_LIBRARY_PATH then a “.” – Entry should explicitly have to be added. Anyone who fails to see it really is an ‘idiot’.

By: Pavol Rusnak

Pavol Rusnak — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:54:22 +0000

@Vincent Untz Yes, right. I changed the wording to avoid confusion.

By: Vincent Untz

Vincent Untz — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:43:06 +0000

And note that this should work in all posix shells: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_06_02

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:50:40 +0000

I found this back in 2000 and emailed Ulrich Drepper about it, and he berated me for being an idiot.

Perhaps I am an idiot, but I still believe to this day that it’s a bug in how LD_LIBRARY_PATH is handled.