Re: Solution to Preload problem & Feature Request

[Kevin Atkinson]

On 14 Apr 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> My fear is that others might start to depend on this feature, which
> might solve the problem for them, but not for people who happen to
> install libraries in places other than /usr or /usr/local, like me.
> In fact, I've always advocated against these *-config scripts
> precisely because they've already caused me a lot of problems in
> installations outside /usr.

Doesn't either setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or the equivalent variable for
your particular system) or adding the weird location to /etc/ld.so.conf
(or the equivalent file for your particular system)  generally solve the
problem?

I don't see why manually infusing the location of the library is really
necessary.  Wouldn't manually infusing the location of the library into
executables cause problems if the libraries are ever moved?  It would
seam to me that it will also make an executable extremely non portable across
multiple sytems....