Re: Bug#72140: Setting up libraries too slow

[Paul Slootman <paul@murphy.nl>]

On Sun 24 Sep 2000, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 03:09:15PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Previously Eray Ozkural wrote:
> > > On our university's Solaris systems, users have to set a library path
> > > to get some software running correctly. Though I sometimes had the
> > > impression that LD_LIBRARY_PATH didn't work as expected on Linux systems.
> > > In Debian system, the LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't seem to be used much
> > > though we do make use of preload path.
> > 
> > Sounds like your university has a broken setup. If it users libraries
> > in non-standard paths it should either add those to /etc/ld.so.conf,
> > or use -rpath when compiling the apps that use them.o
> 
> AFAIK, Solaris does not have an /etc/ld.so.conf.  The run-time library search
> path goes something like:
> 
> 1. LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> 2. paths specified at link time (-R)
> 3. /usr/lib

Correct. Solaris doesn't have ldconfig, hence no ld.so.conf.


Paul Slootman
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