#11617: DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH ignored on Mac OS X 10.11.x ---------------------------------+-------------------------------------- Reporter: borsboom | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: hsc2hs | Version: 7.10.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: MacOS X | Architecture: x86_64 (amd64) Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | ---------------------------------+-------------------------------------- Comment (by gershomb): Having done a little investigating, it seems to me that the real answer is "you shouldn't need to set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH" . Indeed I don't think there are any ''normal'' workflows on OS X that should require this. The issue would only arise when linking to an external lib that inserts a path on DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, and such libs are now effectively basically broken throughout the OS X ecosystem. Here are a few articles that recommend against setting it (ever) as taken from a thread discussing this issue on Oracle bindings for node: * https://blogs.oracle.com/ali/entry/avoiding_ld_library_path_the * http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Admin/ld-lib-path.html We may want to add a FAQ page for manual workarounds, but my gut says "don't fix, and recommend to those who encounter this that they should reconsider why they need DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to begin with". That said, I'm not one of the people "feeling the pain" here, so opinions may vary. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11617#comment:1 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler