Bug 3698

Summary:	env-update orders $LDPATH alphabetically (why?)
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Dan Armak (RETIRED) <danarmak>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	3621

Description Dan Armak (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-06-13 13:47:32 UTC

Look at line 277 in portage.py (line ref from the the new ultrafast version): 
it's ordering $LDPATH alphabetically. I don't know why this is so but it's not 
the expected behaviour because it ignores the order of the env.d files that 
set $LDPATH. 
 
The problem that raised this was that libartsc (from arts, kde) is compatible 
both ways between kde2 and kde3. A program (e.g. libsdl) compiles against the 
correct arts (the newer kde3 one), but at runtime /usr/kde/2 comes before 
/usr/kde/3 in the alphabetically-sorted ld.so.conf and the wrong libartsc.so 
is loaded.