Re: Use of LPATH=.libs in common.mk for gobject-introspection

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 23:55 -0600, Albert Chin wrote:
> What's the purpose of LPATH=.libs in gobject-introspection? For HP-UX,
> when LPATH is set, it replaces the default search path for libraries.
> So, LPATH=.libs with -lpthread will not search /usr/lib for
> libpthread.sl.

It originated here:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555293

It may no longer be necessary now that we try to embed an RPATH.

(The whole thing is really a tower of hacks...)