Re: [IMP-dev] Request to simplify IMP config

[Daniel Russel <>]

On Nov 26, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Ben Webb wrote:

> Daniel Russel wrote:
> There is already a perfectly good delimiter for paths. It is ':' on  
> Unix
> systems and ';' on Windows.
Agreed. Colon used to be the MacOS directory delimiter, so I was  
unsure of its status on macs. I That was my only concern. But it looks  
moot.
> Otherwise, your patch sounds reasonable to me - except perhaps for the
> rpath stuff on non-Mac systems, which is rather controversial on Linux
> systems and will not work at all on Windows or many other Unixes -  
> and I
> will commit it once a) the nightly builds are fixed and b) I have time
> to review it and check out the rpath stuff. (Unless others have
> comments, of course.)
I agree that it is a bit controversial, but everything I have read  
prefers it to using LD_LIBRARY_PATH (since that, among other ill  
effects, changes the behavior of 3rd party libraries). I don't know  
how dynamic link paths are handled on Windows and no one seems to use  
it around here. There used to be some equivalent of rpath, I seem to  
recall, but that was years ago that I last did windows programming.  
How do things currently work on windows anyway (since we can't count  
on csh being around)?

> I'm not sure how your solution would avoid that since the Modeller run
> scripts obviously have to add the Modeller library directories to the
> dynamic library path (and just like IMP, they try to do that by
> prepending rather than appending).
Yeah, it is still I mess. I retract my supposition :-)