[PLUG] rpm uses LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

[Terry Griffin]

On Sunday 15 February 2004 10:25 pm, Chris Jantzen wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:58:49PM -0800, Terry Griffin wrote:
> > > Does RPM even looks at LD_LIBRARY_PATH for shared object libraries?
> > > If not, is there another env variable I need to define?
> > >
> > > thanks for any pointer.
> >
> > I doubt very much that rpm would look at LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> Ahem.
>
> ld-linux.so actually looks at LD_LIBRARY_PATH. And you'll notice that
> every single elf binary on your system is linked with this. ;-) So,
> rpm has no choice, actually.
>

Well, we may have a communication mix up. Yes, the rpm binary itself
uses LD_LIBRARY_PATH. But it doesn't use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to verify
library dependencies of packages being installed. That's what I meant,
which is what I understood the original question to be.

Terry