Re: Trouble with libgsm on Mac OS X 10.6.2

[James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James McKenzie wrote:
> rwoodsmall wrote:
> > James McKenzie wrote:
> >  
> > > doh123 wrote:
> > >
> > >    
> > > > I'm not sure LD_LIBRARY_PATH actually does anything on OSX...
> > > >
> > > > there are a lot of related things you can do though... just look at 
> > > > 'man dyld'
> > > >
> > > >       
> > > Doh123:
> > > Yes it does.  Look it up for FreeBSD.
> > >
> > >     
> >
> >
> > James:
> >
> > No it doesn't.  Like doh123 said run 'man dyld.'  Mac OS X/Darwin 
> > uses it's own C library and kernel, with bits of Free/Net/OpenBSD 
> > mixed in.  But more importantly to this discussion, it uses its own 
> > dynamic linker - dyld.  LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't do anything on OS X.  
> > Saying it does doesn't make it so.  The equivalent environment vars 
> > are DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH.  Again, a quick 
> > look at the dyld man page would have told you that.
> >
> > Grow a clue and stop giving advice until you do.  It's getting old.
> >   
> I'm pulling this from another source.  Thank you for the correction.  
> I'll give the source a pointer in the right direction.  I guess I'm 
> mixing Solaris/RedHat and Macs again...(Apples and whatever.)
>
> Interestingly enough, LD_LIBRARY_PATH seems to work on my Mac.  I'll 
> fix that though.
Even more interesting is when I set the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to what I had 
set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to, make test in riched20 broke spectacularly.  
I owe doh123 an apology and I'll crawl away...

James McKenzie