On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Oystein Viggen wrote: 

> * [Philip Charles] 
> 
> > So if 
> > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/X11R6/lib
> > is inserted towards the beginning of gui.sh this would be a suitable work
> > round until there is a proper fix.
> 
> Would it be workable to have a script that makes a lot of symlinks in
> /lib for the libraries in /X11R6/lib, and maybe even run this script
> automatically after installing packages?  I believe apt has some hooks
> for something like this, at least.
> 
> This workaround should also work for setuid programs, but many may find
> it ugly.  I know I do.

I would prefer the profile solution, adding 
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/X11R6/lib, which could be done when building the
tarball (baseHurd).

Having said this, I feel that this should only be seen as a work round.

Phil.

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