Re: gEDA-user: Re: Dumb newby installation problem

[Charles Lepple <clepple@ghz.cc>]

On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 06:41  AM, Bill Sloman wrote:

> Today's problem is finding a place to add /root/geda/bin to the PATH 
> variable, so that it stays added from session to session. The bash 
> profile in my home directory looks as if it is the right place, and 
> tagging it on the PATH= line seems to work, but adding 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/root/geda/lib in the same file doesn't seem to work.
You might add the line 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH' to .profile (or 
.bash_profile, whichever you are editing).

The thing is that the PATH variable is already exported, but usually 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not. It's kind of like the difference between a 
local and a global variable-- if you don't export a variable to the 
environment, it's only available inside the current shell script, and 
it doesn't affect other programs spawned by the script.

HTH,

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Charles Lepple <clepple@ghz.cc>
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