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The question is, which linker? I think it should be ld.so, which links "on
demand", and does pay attention to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I'm not sure what the
point of find_library() is, otherwise.
Bill
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Thomas Heller <report@bugs.python.org>
wrote:
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> Thomas Heller <theller@ctypes.org> added the comment:
>
> To be honest, I do not understand this request and the discussion.
> ctypes.util.find_library(), as dcumented, is supposed to simulate what
> the linker does: find the name of a shared library. For example,
> it returns 'libc.so.6' when called as ctypes.util.find_library('c').
> AFAIK (and I don't know very much about posix shared libs or linkers)
> the linker does not pay attention to (DY)LD_LIBRARY_PATH env var.
>
> dlopen(shared-lib-name) does use this env vars, but this behaviour is
> already built into dlopen.
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> assignee: -> theller
> nosy: +theller
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