Re: Make on alpha-linux

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Jorn Tomanik <address@hidden> writes:

  jt> I am using make 3.79.1 on alpha-redhat-linux-gnu.

  jt> It seems that make is removing LD_LIBRARY_PATH from the
  jt> environment, which means that following simple makefile fails
  jt> (even if LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set of course):

  jt> all:
  jt>   env | grep LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Works for me (Debian GNU/Linux i686):

  $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/global/lib

  $ env | grep LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/global/lib

  $ echo 'all: ; env | grep LD_LIBRARY_PATH' | make -f-
  env | grep LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/global/lib

No problem.

One thing: check whether your copy of the GNU make is setgid or not.  If
it is, the system might be disabling the setting of LD_LIBRARY_PATH
before changing the gid, as a security precaution.


You shouldn't need the make binary to be setgid on a Linux box, since
there are ways to retrieve the system load without needing special gid
status.

If you installed it yourself and it automatically added the setgid bit,
that seems like a bug in the configuration/installation of GNU make; let
me know.

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