On 15 July 2017 at 17:01, Andres Gomez <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 12:19 +0100, Emil Velikov wrote:
>> On 8 July 2017 at 20:59, Andres Gomez <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > The LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable could be already defined so
>> > we extend it and restore it rather than just overwriting it.
>> >
>>
>> Hmm, what are you doing to actually require LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the first 
>> place?
>> It makes it somewhat uneasy that one will have that in their setup.
>
> My everyday's work is done in a JHBuild env that already uses this
> variable for mesa dependencies. I would have assumed that this is
> actually quite normal for most of mesa developers, although maybe I'm
> wrong ...
>
This is the first time I hear anyone working on Mesa use JHBuild.
There could be some though ;-)

>>
>> > Signed-off-by: Andres Gomez <[email protected]>
>> > ---
>> >  docs/releasing.html | 4 +++-
>> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/docs/releasing.html b/docs/releasing.html
>> > index 8e6e4d1a6d..99235d8412 100644
>> > --- a/docs/releasing.html
>> > +++ b/docs/releasing.html
>> > @@ -472,7 +472,8 @@ Here is one solution that I've been using.
>> >         __glxgears_cmd='glxgears 2>&amp;1 | grep -v "configuration file"'
>> >         __es2info_cmd='es2_info 2>&amp;1 | egrep 
>> > "GL_VERSION|GL_RENDERER|.*dri\.so"'
>> >         __es2gears_cmd='es2gears_x11 2>&amp;1 | grep -v "configuration 
>> > file"'
>> > -       export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/test/usr/local/lib/
>> > +       'x$LD_LIBRARY_PATH' -ne 'x' &amp;&amp; __old_ld='$LD_LIBRARY_PATH' 
>> > &amp;&amp; __token=':'
>> > +       export 
>> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/test/usr/local/lib/'${__token}${__old_ld}'
>>
>> AFAICT you don't need __token.
>
> You do if you want to avoid adding ":" at the end when LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> is not defined previously. It can be done in other ways but I thought
> this to be the simplest/easiest to read.
>
I was thinking about adding the colon, unconditionally. AFAICT things
work perfectly fine with it. Even if one extends LD_LIBRARY_PATH at a
later stage.
But if you really want to avoid it this is the shortest way, indeed.

-Emil
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