> Ben Gamaris original patch gives me an "-lnotmuch" not found failure
> during compilation.
> Your patchset compiles fine and installs /usr/local/bin/notmuch and
> /usr/local/lib/libnotmuch.so.1. However, it doesn't find it when running
> and exits saying libnotmuch.so not found.
Right, that was the error the second patch fixes. Sorry, honestly couldn't
remember, thanks for testing!
> I don't know anything about LD_LIBRARY_PATH and friends, but using the
> default Makefile options (which use /usr/local as prefix) a standard
> install should still work :-).
What's the value of LDPATH in your environment? It should contain
/usr/local/lib.
If it doesn't that's not an issue with the patch, but with your
installation/distro
afaik.