It would require a little manual processing in the resolution code,
but we could have the code search the REXX_PATH for the library as
well.  It would be nice if we did this for Windows too, but I'm not
sure what's involved there.

Rick

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Mark Miesfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just as a FYI, I finally found some confirmation on behavior on Linux
> of the test suite and LLD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> To quote one source:
>
> "> Why not just use setenv()/putenv() to alter LD_LIBRARY_PATH within
>> your program before calling dlopen?
>
> I have not tested this, but suspect that this would be entirely
> pointless: both Linux and Solaris runtime loaders evaluate LD_*
> environment variables once (very early in process startup). After
> that, you can modify LD_LIBRARY_PATH all you want, and will not
> change anything."
>
> So that is exactly what I had suspected.  The runtime loaders evaluate
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH very early when the interpreter is starting up.  Then,
> when I augment the path after the ooTest framework starts executing,
> it is too late and has no effect.
>
> --
> Mark Miesfeld
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