Re: lt_dlopen an uninstalled library

[Roumen Petrov]

Hi ilya,

ilya Basin wrote:
> Hi List.
> I'm making a program with plugins as shared libraries and when I run `make 
> check` I want my program to load the uninstalled plugins using lt_dlopen().
>
> I expected that passing `-dlopen libname.la` to libtool would force the generation of a wrapper script 
> setting the proper LD_LIBRARY_PATH (just like regular linking with a shared .la does). However, an ELF binary 
> is generated and and attempt to call lt_dlopen("libname.la") fails with "File not found". 
> It only succeeds if the filename contains "./.libs/". What am I doing wrong?

No idea.

Just one note that environment variable is LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH - dynamically load 
libtool library.
Path for shared libraries depend from OS.

[SNIP]

Roumen