Re: forcing configure to use /opt/gnome

[Austin hall <meneldil hobbiton org>]

on Friday 06 April Steve Vertigan wrote:
 
> On a relatively unrelated note does anyone know why despite adding
> entries to /etc/ld.so.conf and running ldconfig I still can't get
> applications that rely on non-standard libraries to run until I put the
> path in the environment variable $LD_LIBRARY_PATH?  I'm observing this
> with gnome libraries in /opt/gnome/lib and Mesa libraries in
> /usr/local/lib.  I suppose I could just set $LD_LIBRARY_PATH from a
> login script but I'm trying to figure out the basics of libraries and
> linking and ld.so.conf seems  potentially more elegant way.

With freebsd you can set the rc.conf string variable `ldconfig_paths' to a
space-seperated list of library paths--man rc.conf(5) for the details. Also
remember the file /etc/ld-elf.so.conf because /etc/ld.so.conf is for aout
libraries only; man ldconfig(8) for the details on that.  
> Regards, Steve

Austin
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