Re: [Bug-gnubg] Compile & crash on Solaris

[Holger]

Gary Wong wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 07:53:19PM +0100, Holger wrote:
> > fiesta (~): echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/KDE/2/lib:/usr/gnome/2.0/lib:/usr/gnome/lib:/etc/lib:/usr/4lib:/home/pub/lib
>
> I suspect you probably want your directory (or any for which you
> control the contents) to come first -- something like:
>
>   /home/pub/lib:/usr/local/lib:(other junk):/usr/lib:/usr/4lib

Yes, but /home/pub/... is public, so anybody can install everything. So if I
put it in front I get all the crap and broken things, too, not to mention
security problems. I've had problems with badly installed packages already.

> Otherwise, things you install might never be used, since they're
> overridden by older defaults.  You will want to set $PATH to similarly
> include /home/pub/bin:/usr/local/bin:(others) and $PKG_CONFIG_PATH to
> /home/pub/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:(whatever), so that
> all the *-configs don't get horribly confused.

As I wrote in my other post, I've made symlinks in $HOME/lib and put this in
front of the path.
Thanks for the tip with $PKG_CONFIG_PATH. I didn't know this variable yet.

Regards,

        Holger

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