Hi Maxim! Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> skribis:
> I'm not sure why a wrapper is needed in the first place; these > environment variables are honored by qtbase and defined as search path > specifications. It seems if we were to fix '22138 important Search > paths of dependencies are not honored' we might not have to wrap at all, > unless we really want to be able to run things outside of a profile > (directly from the store) -- which is a nice property, but comes at the > cost of wrappers ugliness (e.g., running 'gdb --args sh > /path/to/wrapper', then having to load the symbols with 'file > /path/to/.the-binary-real; or that wrapper's name appearing in manpages > or other places). > > But for the short term, perhaps it's best to copy that strategy? Agreed on all points. :-) Wrappers are ugly, but they’re necessary, often independently of whether #22138 is fixed. In this case, they’re needed so that GLib, Qt, and all their friends find the files they care about. Ludo’.
