Re: semi-colon in LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Bill Allombert wrote:
> One strange problem on OSF/1:
> make bench look like
>
> bench: gp-sta gp-dyn
>         @env "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.;$$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" $(SHELL) ../src/test/dotest $(SIZEOF_LONG)
>
> OSF/1 loader does not allow the semi-comma and require a colon.
> this break make bench as soon as LD_LIBRARY_PATH is needed...
>
> Is there a reason to use ';' in the first place ?
> As far as I know, the default on GNU/Linux and Solaris is a colon.

The point was to also support OS/2 (C:\...)

Should use $dir_sep [ set to ; or : in get_PATH ] instead of hardcoding this.

Fixed in CVS.

    Karim.
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