[issue2936] ctypes.util.find_library() doesn't consult LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[Bill Janssen]

New submission from Bill Janssen <bill.janssen at gmail.com>:

The "find_library()" function in ctypes.util doesn't look in
LD_LIBRARY_PATH on Solaris or Linux or most other UNIX variants that use
that convention.  This means that find_library() doesn't find libraries
that dlopen() would, and makes development with ctypes much harder than
it should be.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 67170
nosy: janssen
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: ctypes.util.find_library() doesn't consult LD_LIBRARY_PATH
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 3.0

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