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Author	theller
Recipients	janssen, jcea, schmir, theller
Date	2008-05-29.18:24:21
SpamBayes Score	0.345038
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Message-id	<1212085463.91.0.216097866229.issue2936@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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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.

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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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-05-29 18:24:24	theller	set	spambayes_score: 0.345038 -> 0.345038 recipients: + theller, jcea, janssen, schmir
2008-05-29 18:24:24	theller	set	spambayes_score: 0.345038 -> 0.345038 messageid: <1212085463.91.0.216097866229.issue2936@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-05-29 18:24:22	theller	link	issue2936 messages
2008-05-29 18:24:21	theller	create