Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 06/01/06 14:08 CST: > On 6/1/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Notice below there are several libs Firefox "can't find". However, >> it runs perfectly because it has internal knowledge of the whereabouts >> of the libs. >> [snip] > > Not exactly "internal knowledge" as in inside the binary. firefox-bin > just get's launched by a shell script that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH. But > the shell script has "internal knowledge" about the location of those > libraries. :)
Precisely why I didn't say firefox-bin, and said Firefox (as in the package). And "the package" runs perfectly because it has this internal knowledge. I didn't think it relevant to explain about the shell script, as my intention was to mention that not always what Peter said will be correct. :-) -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 14:12:00 up 20 days, 6:12, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.01 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
