On January 04, Dave Anselmi enlightened our ignorance thusly: > Tim Wunder wrote: > > > Are you looking for the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable? > > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<path to libs>:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH > > The linux loader, ld, keeps its own list of library paths so this tends not to be
In /etc/ld.so.conf, correct. > necessary. But that means you have to run ldconfig after installing any new > libraries (which any well behaved package manager should handle for you). Correct. <quibble> However, LD_LIBRARY_PATH becomes very handy for running apps when you don't have root access (for ldconfig, for example) or for using libraries not installed in locations about which ld.so knows. </quibble> K -- You will be misunderstood by everyone. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
