On 18 July 2017 at 14:05, Andres Gomez <ago...@igalia.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-07-18 at 10:48 +0100, Emil Velikov wrote:
>> On 15 July 2017 at 17:01, Andres Gomez <ago...@igalia.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 12:19 +0100, Emil Velikov wrote:
>> > > On 8 July 2017 at 20:59, Andres Gomez <ago...@igalia.com> 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 ;-)
>
> 😄
>
> Well, I meant that I assumed it was normal to have LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> customized to point to the dependencies, not that it was normal to use
> JHBuild 😉
>
That is more common that JHBuild, but still fairly rare, AFAICT.
>>
>> > >
>> > > > Signed-off-by: Andres Gomez <ago...@igalia.com>
>> > > > ---
>> > > > 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>&1 | grep -v "configuration
>> > > > file"'
>> > > > __es2info_cmd='es2_info 2>&1 | egrep
>> > > > "GL_VERSION|GL_RENDERER|.*dri\.so"'
>> > > > __es2gears_cmd='es2gears_x11 2>&1 | grep -v "configuration
>> > > > file"'
>> > > > - export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/test/usr/local/lib/
>> > > > + 'x$LD_LIBRARY_PATH' -ne 'x' &&
>> > > > __old_ld='$LD_LIBRARY_PATH' && __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.
>
> Mmmm ... didn't think that was also valid but, I suppose why not. In
> any case, it feels odd to me. I don't remember seeing env variables
> like that finishing in ":" before.
>
> Not hard thoughts on this. If you prefer to remove __token, I'm OK with
> it.
>
Please fixup locally and push the series.
Thanks
Emil
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