[SOLVED] Error while compiling serf-1.3.6 from source on Linux during the check phase

Hello,

Not sure if I'm doing something wrong here, but it seems that the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable is not being read when compiling serf from source (serf-1.3.6.tar.bz2) on Linux (RHEL4). Actually it fails only during the "check" step.

Due to restrictions on my Linux server I had to install everything locally (SCons, Python, OpenSSL, APR, etc.). All looks and works fine, but when I try to compile serf from source by running the following steps look what I get:

$ scons APR=$HOME/local APU=$HOME/local OPENSSL=$HOME/local PREFIX=$HOME/local CFLAGS=-m64
(builds everything just fine)

$ scons check CFLAGS=-m64

== Testing test/testcases/chunked-trailers.response ==
test/serf_response: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ERROR: test case test/testcases/chunked-trailers.response failed
scons: *** [check] Error 1
scons: building terminated because of errors.

The way I fixed this was to edit build/check.py file and add the following line right before the subprocess.check_call([SERF_RESPONSE_EXE, case]) one:

os.environ["LD_LIBRARY_PATH"] = "/home/myuserid/local/lib"

Yes, I had the LD_LIBRARY_PATH set in my ~/.profile and it's working, but for some reason it's not being passed to the child process' environment (is it a Python issue?).

After adding this line everything works as expected.

I just wanted to let you guys know, in case this is indeed something in serf and not in my particular environment.

Thanks.

Original issue reported by felix.almeida