Merge pull request #1315 from jan-janssen/patch-1

    # fall back to loading with a relative path,

    #   typically requires LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be set appropriately

    if any([f.startswith('liblammps') and f.endswith('.dylib') for f in os.listdir(modpath)]):

      lib_ext = ".dylib"

    else:

      lib_ext = ".so"

    if not self.lib:

      try:

        if not name: self.lib = CDLL(join(modpath,"liblammps.so"),RTLD_GLOBAL)

        else: self.lib = CDLL(join(modpath,"liblammps_%s.so" % name),

        if not name: self.lib = CDLL(join(modpath,"liblammps" + lib_ext),RTLD_GLOBAL)

        else: self.lib = CDLL(join(modpath,"liblammps_%s" % name + lib_ext),

                              RTLD_GLOBAL)

      except:

        if not name: self.lib = CDLL("liblammps.so",RTLD_GLOBAL)

        else: self.lib = CDLL("liblammps_%s.so" % name,RTLD_GLOBAL)

        if not name: self.lib = CDLL("liblammps" + lib_ext,RTLD_GLOBAL)

        else: self.lib = CDLL("liblammps_%s" % name + lib_ext,RTLD_GLOBAL)

    # define ctypes API for each library method

    # NOTE: should add one of these for each lib function