hi, I just recently changed my main devel box from a debian to a RH9 distribution and something seems to have change which I cannot quite get used to.
I have my stock RH9 packages installed with GNOME. I have also a home-built GNOME desktop installed in /opt/gnome2/. Until things started to break, I used to think that my binaries in /opt/gnome2/bin did find their associated libs with the magic LD_LIBRARY_PATH I used in my .bashrc. However, recently, I built gnomemeeting and this binary did not work. More specifically, it segfaults at startup. I do not really know why but I suspect that it might be related to the fact the libraries this binary depends upon resolve to the RH libs installed in /usr while I did build it against the ones in /opt/gnome2: ldd shows that the binary depends on /usr libs (at least, this is what LD_DEBUG=libs says). The weird thing is that this prompted me to figure out why my other desktop applications did correctly depend upon the libraries in /opt. This turned out to be because they were built with a RPATH (why, I do not know but I am looking into this). What really surprises me is that the bottomline seems to be that LD_LIBRARAY_PATH has NO effect whatsoever on the library lookup performed by the linker. I cannot help but find this a bit un-constructive. Am I wrong ? If so, how can I make sure that a given binary will use LD_LIBRARY_PATH correctly ? (yes, I have exported LD_LIBRARY_PATH, thank you) regards, Mathieu -- Mathieu Lacage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
