Fwd: How to obtain GNUstep environment values without openapp or GNUstep.sh?

[Chris B. Vetter]

Oops, this was supposed to go to the list...

On 12/5/06, Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@tiptree.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 1.  When you install GNUstep, you should add the paths of the
> directories containing GNUstep libraries to /etc/ld.so.conf and run
> the ldconfig program to update the systems cache of library paths.
> Putting libgnustep-base in /usr/lib has a similar effect, but you
> need to remember to do that for every library you might want to
> use ... so adding directories to /etc/ld.so.conf is less error prone
> as it means you are less likely to miss a library.
[...]

Of course this wouldn't work on systems that do not have/use /etc/ld.so.conf.
Eg. on Solaris, you would have to use crle(1), keeping information in
/var/ld/ld.conf

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Chris