Bug#158459: How to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your debian/rules

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos@baldric.uwo.ca>]

> > > It should probably be LD_LIBRARY_PATH=whatever:$${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
> > Even better, something like
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:}whatever.
> > It's generally not desirable to introduce null path components into
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH if it was unset before, see #152099 for example.
> 
> Hmm.. there are quite a few packages which already do something like it,
> I'll cc -devel so that this will get more coverage.
> 

I thought that the whole purpose of the "-r" flag to dpkg-buildpackage
was to get around this sillyness?

In general I run "dpkg-buildpackage <options> -rfakeroot"

How many ways are there to skin a cat? ;)

c.