[Rcml-group2] Eliminated need for LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Status: Pre-Alpha
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From: John B. <jx...@ga...> - 2000-11-09 05:59:23
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I've set up the Makefile so that after compiling it is no longer necessary to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable. Isn't that good news? LD_LIBRARY_PATH is an example of a UNIX feature that exists for a good reason but is often used for bad reasons. Having to set it before running a program is a bad idea. What if you had to set it before running commands like cat or ls? Nevertheless, the correct way to handle the issues that are incorrectly solved with LD_LIBRARY_PATH is hardly ever understood, and so many UNIX software packages require you to set it. I had to deal with this issue some time last fall, and knew the answer was somewhere on the Internet. Fortunately, I finally found it again. I thought you might appreciate having this information to look at. It is at: http://www.visi.com/~barr/ldpath.html |