On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> 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?
Try supporting this for 5000 users of your installed program across
5000 workstations/PCs. This approach fails miserably. Besides the
effort to get your users to use the same LD_LIBRARY_PATH, there is the
problem with conflicts between similarly named libraries.
The LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable was intended for developers, and it
should be treated as such.
> 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....
Systems which want to copy binaries around should agree on standard
library locations and naming conventions. Otherwise, there is always
compilation from source.
Bob
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