[Distutils] reservations about pythonv

[Fred Drake]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> I vaguely recall that while this *should* work, it actually doesn't
> because once the executable has started, $LD_LIBRARY_PATH isn't consulted
> again.

I recall less vaguely, since we've had to deal with this problem more
recently than your Solaris antics.  :-)  The loader consults
LD_LIBRARY_PATH before  main()  is called, initializing it's own
state, and doesn't pick up changes.  This makes a re-exec necessary if
the new value is different from the original (worth checking to avoid
an exec).


  -Fred

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