On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 16:24:41 -0700, Ken Teague wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> >> libz.so.1, of course, is a symlink to the actual library. For my > >> >> Debian Lenny box, it points to libz.so.1.2.3.3 and for acusim, it > >> >> points to libz.so.1.2.3. > > > > > > This does not explain what you are doing at the moment. Do you have a > > > symlink that you change according to which application you run next? > > I'm hoping that, in the end, I do not need to modify symlinks to shared > libraries and all programs run without any modification. > > I hope I don't confuse anyone in this reply, as I've combined both of > Florian's e-mail's into this single one for digestion. > > > > Something that I missed previously: Didn't you say this is a Lenny > > > system? > > Yep, plain on Lenny > > > > Programs in /usr/X11R6/bin/ should not exist anymore from Etch > > > onwards. > > Appears you're correct: > host:/etc/ld.so.conf.d# ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2008-10-09 11:12 /usr/X11R6/bin -> ../bin
Ah, my mistake: I forgot that this legacy symlink still exists. Everything is alright. [...] > Looks like it: > host:/etc/ld.so.conf.d# env |grep LD_ > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=:/usr/local/bin/acusim/LINUX64/V1.7e/bin:/usr/local/bin/acusim/LINUX64/V1.7e/base/lib:/usr/local/bin/acusim/LINUX64/V1.7e/ODB_6.7/lib [...] > > > Then I would write a wrapper script to start up acuSim after setting > > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH and maybe LD_PRELOAD so that acuSim finds its own > > > preferred versions of libraries before it looks in the system folders > > > (see "man ld.so"). > > Can you please expand on this and possibly provide an example? Thanks > so much for your assistance. :-) > > acuSim does have me sourcing a config file: [ snip: the config file sets and exports LD_LIBRARY_PATH and other environmental variables. ] Have you put the command to source this config file into .bashrc or another startup file? I would remove that and use a simple wrapper like this: #!/bin/sh source /usr/local/bin/acusim/LINUX64/V1.7e/script/.acusim-sh /path/to/the/command/that/starts/acuSim Put the above three lines into a file that you call, for example, my-acusim. (Replace the last line with the correct command to start the application, of course.) Make this file executable and put it into /usr/local/bin (system wide) or ~/bin (only for your user). Then you can use the command "my-acusim" to start the programm. It will run with the correct environmental variables while the rest of your system should remain unaffected. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
