What does LIBRARY_PATH do ?

[Kristian Peters <kristian.peters@korseby.net>]

Hello.

In order to get glib2 compile and find all the required libraries under OSX I need to declare LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/lib" in my shell and export it. (In /opt all my installed self-compiled packages are located.)
Why ? Or a better question: What a function has LIBRARY_PATH ? Under linux and other systems I have ld and ldconfig that should automatically doing this.

*Kristian

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