Re: [Inkscape-devel] RFC: Drop Inkview (was: Shared Library)

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Peter Moulder <peter.moulder@...2349...> wrote:

I wonder whether a shared library would have disadvantages for developers, e.g. whether one needs to do `make install' before testing a change,

I suppose one would prefer to do in-source-tree (or at least in-build-dir) testing rather than installing, and on Linux I have been able to do export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. to allow loading sharedlibs from the current dir. (Windows allows that by default :-/)

IIUC if you enclose a series of commands in paranthesis it will execute them in a subshell and the export values in it will not affect the outer shell and this is recommended for security reasons:

[samjnaa@...2899...] (export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ; ./inkscape)