RE: installing 2.8

["Dugas, Alan" <alan dugas analog com>]

I see your point!  What's the -R switch/option do?



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> From: 	Drazen Kacar[SMTP:dave srce hr]
> Sent: 	Thursday, October 26, 2000 7:36 PM
> To: 	Dugas, Alan
> Cc: 	Matt Eisemann; Drazen Kacar; gtk-list gnome org
> Subject: 	Re: installing 2.8
> 
> Dugas, Alan wrote:
> > 	It appears either way works.
> 
> For this particular application. Did you check if it breaks any other
> application on your system?
> 
> > It seems to me just a qustion of preference.
> 
> Until you have libraries with the same name in different directories.
> Without LD_LIBRARY_PATH set, you have file system name space and that's
> good, because you don't have to think about name collisions.
> 
> If you set LD_LIBRARY_PATH you have only global name space and
> applications
> cannot use their libraries. Instead they'll have to use the libraries
> you gave them.
> 
> For example. There is libtiff in /usr/openwin/lib. It's not compatible
> with libtiff we normally use (it's an older version, 3.0 alpha or
> something like that). If you set
> 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/openwin/lib
> 
> certan number of applications won't work any more. If you change it, then
> some other applications won't work any more. You can't have both.
> 
> Without LD_LIBRARY_PATH set and by using runpaths encoded in the
> executables
> and libraries, you can have both and you never need to worry if your
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH is still good enough (meaning it doesn't break too much
> things) after the installation of another library or set of libraries.
> 
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