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Paul Licameli 8b32eea8bb Bug290 (load LAME, FFmpeg from correct place): original fix again...
... That is, put a little shell script in the application bundle, and invoke
it (in Release, though not Debug where it interferes with Xcode debugging)

See commit 07661c186f7e8e6d978fa35485d65364b96dfb3a

The shell nulls the environment variable DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and then executes
the main program.

This is needed because changes to DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH during the main program's
run fail to affect the loading of dynamic libraries afterward.

We need null in DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to make absolute paths to libraries take
priority.

More info:

Documentation of workings of the macOS dynamic loader
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/DynamicLibraries/100-Articles/DynamicLibraryUsageGuidelines.html

The same problem and solution is discussed here
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6713692/problems-with-using-setenv-and-then-making-the-dlopen-call

It is claimed there that Firefox did the same trick with a shell, which I do
not observe in my version, but GIMP 2.8.16 does this, as I can see by examining
package contents

Also note the mention in this commit's comments (where the script was removed
because bug543's fix left it unused), that the script also used to
interfere with signing.  I hope that there will be a way around that.

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#!/bin/sh
#
# The purpose of this script is to give the user more control over where libraries
# such as Lame and FFmpeg get loaded from.
#
# Since absolute pathnames are used when loading these libraries, the normal search
# path would be DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, absolute path, DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH. This
# means that DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH can override what the user actually wants.
#
# So, we simply clear DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to allow the users choice to be the first
# one tried.
#
DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH="$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH:$DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH:$HOME/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib"
export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=""
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
dir=$(dirname "$0")
"$dir/Audacity"