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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/libtool.texi | 21 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/notes.texi | 15 |
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/libtool.texi b/doc/libtool.texi index 90aeb8ff..06322259 100644 --- a/doc/libtool.texi +++ b/doc/libtool.texi @@ -2419,6 +2419,27 @@ Program to use rather than checking for @command{mt}, the Manifest Tool. Only used on Cygwin/MS-Windows at the moment. @end defvar +@defvar LT_SYS_LIBRARY_PATH +Libtool has heuristics for the system search path for runtime-loaded +libraries. If the guessed default does not match the setup of the host +system, this variable can be used to modify that path list, as follows +(@code{LT_SYS_LIBRARY_PATH} is a colon-delimited list like @code{PATH}): +@itemize @bullet +@item @code{path:} +The heuristically determined paths will be appened after the trailing +colon; +@item @code{:path} +The heuristically determined paths will be prepended before the leading +colon; +@item @code{path::path} +The heuristically determined paths will be inserted between the double +colons; +@item @code{path} +With no dangling colons, the heuristically determined paths will be +ignored entirely. +@end itemize +@end defvar + With 1.3 era libtool, if you wanted to know any details of what libtool had discovered about your architecture and environment, you had to run the script with @option{--config} and grep through the diff --git a/doc/notes.texi b/doc/notes.texi index a99bbbd6..1fa8a0b9 100644 --- a/doc/notes.texi +++ b/doc/notes.texi @@ -68,13 +68,12 @@ to use autoconf-mode, which is distributed with GNU Emacs 21, Autoconf itself, and all recent releases of XEmacs. @item -When building on some GNU/Linux systems for multilib targets -@command{libtool} sometimes guesses the wrong paths that the linker -and dynamic linker search by default. If this occurs, you may override -libtool's guesses at @command{configure} time by setting the -@command{autoconf} cache variables -@code{lt_cv_sys_lib_search_path_spec} and -@code{lt_cv_sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec} respectively to the correct search -paths. +When building on some GNU/Linux systems for multilib targets @command{libtool} +sometimes guesses the wrong paths that the linker and dynamic linker search by +default. If this occurs for the dynamic library path, you may use the +@code{LT_SYS_LIBRARY_PATH} environment variable to adjust. Otherwise, at +@command{configure} time you may override libtool's guesses by setting the +@command{autoconf} cache variables @code{lt_cv_sys_lib_search_path_spec} and +@code{lt_cv_sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec} respectively. @end itemize |