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Paul Joseph Davis commented on COUCHDB-80:
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As I explained in IRC, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is for people that don't feel like
putting their libraries into directories that are searched by ld by default.
The proper way to do make the LD_LIBRARY_PATH disappear is to tell people to
use the system default paths, change their ld.so.conf or deal with
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Most of the reports I've seen on this are in reference to spidermonkey on OS X.
Checking the build instructions at [1] shows that we're telling people to put
the library in a unsearched library path...
The proper directions are to either use a command like this:
JS_DIST=/usr/local/ make -f Makefile.ref export
to install the bits into a default searched directory (On OS X, I seem to
recall that not all distros search /usr/local/lib but I could be making that
up...)
Or we can add a couple symlinks like such:
JS_DIST=/usr/local/spidermonkey make -f Makefile.ref export
sudo ln -s /usr/local/spidermonkey/lib/libjs.dylib /usr/local/lib
sudo ln -s /usr/local/spidermonkey/include /usr/local/include/js
in case people don't want to install directly into those directories for some
odd reason.
I verified both approaches but I have a port version of spidermonkey installed
so I would like someone without the port version installed to double check that
it wasn't sneaking in there somehow. otool said it wasn't but who can be
certain without checking.
Just to point out, there's still noting in CouchDB that needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH XD
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH shouldn't be needed
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>
> Key: COUCHDB-80
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-80
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Infrastructure
> Reporter: Noah Slater
> Assignee: Noah Slater
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> This should be configured at build time, see:
> http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/_/ldpath.html
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html
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