[Rd] R and ACML

[Evan Cooch]

Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> Evan Cooch wrote:
>> I lie (apparently) - turns out step (7) (below) *did* work.
>>
>> OK, so why didn't previous attempts at the problem (i.e., using 
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH) work? Hmmm....
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH affects runtime behavior, ./configure ... affects
> compile time behavior. The former can only influence the latter
> to the extent that the runtime environment of temporary tools
> built during the configure stage (./configure runs the compiler and 
> build some small binaries, etc and check stuff by whether the compiler 
> was successful and running these small binaries and see the results)
> are affected.
>
> Apples and oranges.
>
> HTL

Thanks very much for the clarification.