Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] On OS X, ensure DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH is passed to children (#1277)

[Jim Ursetto]

Here is a patch which uses the env idea.  
It is a much less invasive change and might slot into 4.11.
Tested only on OS X 10.11.

0001-On-OS-X-ensure-DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH-is-passed-to-childr.patch.txt
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Jim

> On Apr 15, 2016, at 21:23, Jim Ursetto <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Apr 15, 2016, at 18:46, address@hidden wrote:
>> 
>> Another dirty solution would be to add a hack to those tools that invoke 
>> uninstalled
>> programs via system(3) to invoke "env DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=... <program>"
>> instead.
>> 
> 
> In limited testing the env approach seems to work.  But, I can’t see how to
> do this only during the testing phase.  There’s no way for chicken-install or
> setup-api, for example, to know that it’s being invoked as an uninstalled 
> program,
> and needs to pass DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to its children.  I suppose that, if a 
> tool
> detects that the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH variable is set at all, and the platform is
> OS X, it could prepend the env call.  I would prefer to do only do it during
> `make check`, but it may be an okay compromise.  I’ll look into it...
> 
> Jim
>