[OPEN-ILS-DEV] am I close?

Hennie Rautenbach hennie at sabinet.co.za
Thu May 10 15:16:03 EDT 2007


Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
> -On [20070510 20:51], Don McMorris (don.mcmorris at gmail.com) wrote:
>   
>> Just to answer Hennie's question about library search path.  There are
>> a couple ways to do this...  My preference is to add an entry to
>> /etc/ld.so.conf (or your specific distro's implementation of it).
>> There have also been other suggestions, and a search of the archives
>> should help here.
>>     
>
> As a toolchain guy I want to pipe up and say that anybody using
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH deserves to be keelhauled. (Pet peeve for a lot of reasons.)
>
> What Don suggests here using /etc/ld.so.conf or FreeBSD's /etc/rc.conf's
> ldconfig_paths="" is the right thing to do.
>   

I can certainly appreciate that, but for reasons unbeknown to me it 
don't pick up some of the libraries (all of them .so) since I upgraded 
to 1.1.5.




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