I'm surprised that since it installs in a non-standard location that it doesn't create a /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ conf file. In that case it's a simple drop-in file that only requires ldconfig to be run after the package installation.... -- Gary L. Greene, Jr. IT Operations Minerva Networks, Inc. Cell: (650) 704-6633 Phone: (408) 240-1239 > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Filipe Brandenburger > Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 12:26 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Cannot get LD_LIBRARY_PATH to work > under NX (freenx) > > Hi, > > On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 15:04, Andrzej > Szymanski<szymans at agh.edu.pl> wrote: > > However, moving this to .bashrc is a workaround. If I log > in graphically > > to the console the LD_LIBRARY_PATH from .bash_profile is > set correctly. > > It is unset only on NX session (and the other settings from > > .bash_profile are set properly, so this file is definitely > parsed during > > nx session startup). > > I use the "real" NX, not FreeNX, and I know it installs under /usr/NX, > so I know it will use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to find its own libraries. I > believe it will probably reset (erase) the contents of LD_LIBRARY_PATH > once the O.S. processes (window manager, etc.) are started. > > As I said, if your terminal emulator opened a "login" shell you would > not have problems leaving the setting in .bash_profile, as it would be > read again when you open a new shell (if you are starting your > application through a shell). However, I believe this is not really > very standardized. As a rule of thumb, I try to put as much as > possible in .bashrc and leave only the source of .bashrc in > .bash_profile, as this increases the chances of it "just working". > > And while you say "moving this to .bashrc is a workaround", I would > say that using LD_LIBRARY_PATH is a workaround, or at least a kludge, > since software that is properly installed would never need it... The > interaction of different software packages that need to use it will > always cause this kind of issues, and there is usually nothing much > short of other workarounds or kludges that can be done about it... > > Filipe > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >