Pango Builds and RedHat 9.0

[Eric Mader <mader jtcsv com>]

Hello,

I recently upgraded the two machines I use to build Pango to RedHat 7.3 
to RedHat 9.0. After the upgrade, the desktop environment behaved very 
strangely.

After a couple of days of confusion, I realized that it was loading some 
of my old Pango development libraries instead of the newer ones 
installed with the system. This was because I had modified my 
.bash_profile to put "/usr/local/lib" on LD_LIBRARY_PATH so that I 
didn't need to remember to set it everytime I logged in to do Pango 
work. Removing that entry, and cleaning up a couple of other things left 
over from my Pango work, caused the desktop to behave normally.

Is there some clever way to set up these machines so that the desktop 
will continue to use the released version of all the libraries and I can 
also build the latest Pango without having to remember to reset 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH all the time? The best I've been able to come up with is 
to write a shell script that I run whenever I start doing Pango 
development...

Regards,
Eric Mader
IBM GCoC - San José
5600 Cottle Rd.  M/S 50-2 / B11
San Jose, CA 95193