Martin Panter added the comment:
I am realizing that many people like to use find_library() as a way of
converting a portable name like “magic” (from building with -lmagic) into a
platform-specific name (libmagic.so.1, libmagic.dylib, magic.dll, etc), and
then pass this to LoadLibrary() or equivalent. So searching Python’s runpath
would probably be valid for that use case.
IMO the extra searching is inefficient, and not robust if there is more than
one version of the library. Personally I would be more interested in adding an
alternative function, maybe make_library_name("magic", "1") -> "libmagic.so.1",
or cdll.LoadLibraryByPortableName("magic", "1").
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