ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

>> You could set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to "." (or the subdirectory where the
>> library can be found) before running the tests.
>
> This should be ‘LIBRARY_PATH’, not ‘LD_LIBRARY_PATH’, but yes, good
> idea.

I found out that I can patch the setup.py file to include the necessary
library dir in its instructions.  Updated patch is below.

Tell me if this should go to a 'snippet' (or patch) in the 'source'
instead (where it would patch setup.py.in).  I'm not sure if the need to
specify the ".libs" subdirectory is Guix-specific or not.