Re: gEDA-user: New testing version of gEDA Suite CD available

[Charles Lepple <clepple@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/5/05, David Hart <dhart155@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm having issues with LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting on Fedora Core 4. From
> hints at fedoraforum.org I think I've figured it out, but it will take a
> while to confirm. The short of it is:
>   1) Updating PATH is done in user's .bash_profile file.
>   2) Updating LD_LIBRARY_PATH is done in user's .bashrc
>   3) Need to update /etc/ld.so.conf with LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>   4) Need to run /sbin/ldconfig after adding anything to above.

Usually, it boils down to one of two scenarios:

1) set and export LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include your gEDA library

2) add the path to /etc/ld.so.conf and run /sbin/ldconfig

If you do one of these steps, you shouldn't have to do the other.

ldconfig does create some extra symbolic links, but for gEDA, those
should be created at 'make install' time.

Things may change, though, if prelinking or maybe even selinux are involved.

Also, $PATH isn't linked to either one of these, but some shells (csh,
tcsh) have an internal list of commands and their locations, and you
have to type 'rehash' if you get 'command not found' on something that
you just installed.

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- Charles Lepple