Justin Pryzby wrote: > How can I modify the path to the libraries? During compilation, the > build system has to see $buildpath/iraf/lib/libfoo.so.0, but once > installed, the executables must see > /usr/lib/iraf/iraf/lib/libfoo.so.0. There are a bunch of executables, > so I don't want to have to use a script to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH or > such.
Maybe this isn't the best idea, but really you only need to write one script in /usr/bin, plus make a bunch of symlinks in /usr/bin to the script that have the same name as the real executables. Assuming your real executables go in /usr/lib/iraf/bin, the script would be #!/bin/sh PROGRAM=`basename $0` BASE_PATH=/usr/lib/iraf/bin export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/iraf/iraf/lib exec $BASE_PATH/$PROGRAM "$@" # if we get here something went wrong echo "Couldn't run $BASE_PATH/$PROGRAM!" > /dev/stderr exit 1 I guess the script could even go in /usr/share/iraf/bin so as not to clutter the /usr/bin namespace. Probably this method is only good for a last resort, as it's kind of hackish. Alternative solutions would be to put the shared libs in /usr/lib, or else to add the IRAF shared lib directory to /etc/ld.so.conf ... By the way, congrats on getting IRAF to build shared libs -- I hope it wasn't as much of a pain in the @$$ as I found it was for cernlib. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
