On 17 Jan 2024 22:44, KO Myung-Hun wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On 16 Jan 2024 23:44, KO Myung-Hun wrote:
> >> Some OSes such as OS/2, uses ';' as a path separator. So using 
> >> $PATH_SEPARATOR instead of hard-coded ':' is more proper.
> > 
> > so we're on the same page, we're talking about the separator that
> > is used in the $PATH environment variable.  it doesn't show up in
> > other places -- it is not used to separate e.g. rpath entries right
> > ?  what about LD_LIBRARY_PATH and similar vars ?  i guess we assume
> > the separator used by PATH is also used with that var ?
> 
> This is applied to all the variables containing a list of paths and/or
> dirs separated by ':' including PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> 
> If rpath entries is separated by ':', it's also true.

i'm not familiar with the diff (non-glibc) runtime loaders, so will take your
word for this.  afaict, libtool has behaved this way for a long time, so i'm
a bit inclined to wait for 2.4.8 release and then merge it.
-mike

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