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Always search in GAUDI_PLUGIN_PATH before LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Juan Miguel Carcellerrequested to merge
jcarcell/Gaudi:support-gaudi-plugin-path into master

Searching in GAUDI_PLUGIN_PATH was introduced in !1452 (merged) for MacOS, and there is an issue about supporting it more generally: #267 (closed). This allows not to have to add every folder with algorithms to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, that is used when linking, at runtime to load shared dynamic libraries or by other programs, for example.

This PR:

  • Adds changes in various places to also look in GAUDI_PLUGIN_PATH and fall back to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  • Add a test where only GAUDI_PLUGIN_PATH in the environment is set

I have also tested that it works when using the Boost filesystem, but haven't tested this on MacOS yet (nothing should change there). In principle there shouldn't be any changes for environments where all the libraries are in LD_LIBRARY_PATH and GAUDI_PLUGIN_PATH is empty, since it will look there.

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