[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 3/4] docs: avoid overwrite of LD_LIBRARY_PATH during basic testing

[Andres Gomez]

On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 12:19 +0100, Emil Velikov wrote:
> On 8 July 2017 at 20:59, Andres Gomez <agomez at igalia.com> wrote:
> > The LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable could be already defined so
> > we extend it and restore it rather than just overwriting it.
> > 
> 
> Hmm, what are you doing to actually require LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the first place?
> It makes it somewhat uneasy that one will have that in their setup.

My everyday's work is done in a JHBuild env that already uses this
variable for mesa dependencies. I would have assumed that this is
actually quite normal for most of mesa developers, although maybe I'm
wrong ...

> 
> > Signed-off-by: Andres Gomez <agomez at igalia.com>
> > ---
> >  docs/releasing.html | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/docs/releasing.html b/docs/releasing.html
> > index 8e6e4d1a6d..99235d8412 100644
> > --- a/docs/releasing.html
> > +++ b/docs/releasing.html
> > @@ -472,7 +472,8 @@ Here is one solution that I've been using.
> >         __glxgears_cmd='glxgears 2>&1 | grep -v "configuration file"'
> >         __es2info_cmd='es2_info 2>&1 | egrep "GL_VERSION|GL_RENDERER|.*dri\.so"'
> >         __es2gears_cmd='es2gears_x11 2>&1 | grep -v "configuration file"'
> > -       export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/test/usr/local/lib/
> > +       'x$LD_LIBRARY_PATH' -ne 'x' && __old_ld='$LD_LIBRARY_PATH' && __token=':'
> > +       export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/test/usr/local/lib/'${__token}${__old_ld}'
> 
> AFAICT you don't need __token.

You do if you want to avoid adding ":" at the end when LD_LIBRARY_PATH
is not defined previously. It can be done in other ways but I thought
this to be the simplest/easiest to read.

-- 
Br,

Andres