On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 15:48 -0600, James Cornell wrote:
> Oh right, pkgtool's supposed to manage setting variables.

If you use the desktop CBE and source env.sh, it will unset most env
variables, including LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and set a few important ones
(like CC, CXX).

>   Doh,  Though
> from my experience when things such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH are unset, the
> same message comes up, 

You shouldn't need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH for normal usage of anything.
It's useful for testing or experimenting and occasionally for working
around broken binaries but not much else.

> and at times the config.log from pkgtool is next to useless 

pkgtool doesn't have much to do with config.log.  config.log is the log
file created by configure.

Laca

> and the solution comes from manually setting environment
> variables.  Though since the issue seems to affect everything, would you
> believe it was the pkgtool version as being the problem?


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