[OPEN-ILS-DEV] am I close?

[Don McMorris]

Thanks for the input Jeroen!

Dan suggests the LD_LIBRARY_PATH because of some "non-standard" file
naming not picked up by ldconfig (IE: the files that aren't lib*.so).
Since I'm not a programmer, what would you suggest as an alternate,
more correct resolution? (so that we may update the docs).

--Don

On 5/10/07, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai at in-nomine.org> 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.
>
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