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Re: environment variables in ld scripts

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Date	2013-04-23 12:56 -0700
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Subject	Re: environment variables in ld scripts
From	Jay Braun <lyngwyst@gmail.com>

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On Monday, April 22, 2013 5:31:19 PM UTC-7, Jay Braun wrote:
> I have inherited an application that makes extensive use of ld scripts.  The former developer hard-coded many absolute directory paths into these scripts, e.g.:
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> -L /home/harold/libs -( -lnwiss -lr -)
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> @/home/harold/libs lib.ld
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> I would like to use environment variables so that I can use, say /home/jay/ rather than /home/harold.  So I'll define:
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> export APP_LIBS=/home/jay/libs
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> but neither of the following works:
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> -L $APP_LIBS -( -lnwiss -lr -)
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> @$APP_LIBS lib.ld
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> Is there a special notation for employing environment variables in ld scripts?
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> Thanks,
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> Jay

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environment variables in ld scripts Jay Braun <lyngwyst@gmail.com> - 2013-04-22 17:31 -0700
  Re: environment variables in ld scripts Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2013-04-23 14:50 +0300
  Re: environment variables in ld scripts John Reiser <jreiserfl@comcast.net> - 2013-04-23 08:34 -0700
    Re: environment variables in ld scripts Jay Braun <lyngwyst@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 12:56 -0700
  Re: environment variables in ld scripts Jay Braun <lyngwyst@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 12:56 -0700

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