[SciPy-dev] mlabwrap, alternative to LD_LIBRARY_PATH ?

[David Cournapeau]

Alexander Schmolck wrote:
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> Yeah, the whole LD_LIBRARY_PATH thing is a huge pain -- there ought to be a
> better way to do this, but it's the "official" one:
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> <http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/index.html?/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/matlab_external/f39903.html>
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> Any unix build experts who can comment on this?
>
If I were to build the thing with gcc, I would use -rpath, which 
hardcodes the library runtime path into the binary. I used this quite 
often with mex files, when I was still using matlab.

David