backends: allow LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be overwritten in test environments #14293
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This patch makes meson not touch LD_LIBRARY_PATH in test environments if it was set or unset. This is useful for writing test cases that validate behaviour of or otherwise depend on LD_LIBRARY_PATH, e.g. for mlibc's RTLD.
I'm not sure if anything out there relies on LD_LIBRARY_PATH being prepended by meson AND manually sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, this could affect such use cases.
This was shortly discussed on IRC.