Re: Xterm library failure...
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:28:40AM +0100, Neil Levine wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 06:36:01PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann a ecrit:
> >
> > This is the "rpath" solution. The path to the library is hard coded in the
> > binary. Debian has a policy against rpath, so we don't use it. This is why
> > you need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> Thanks. Is there any reason why this works as root but not as a
> regular user?
If you attempt to run a suid binary (check with ls -l), then it won't work
with LD_LIBRARY_PATH, I think.
Marcus
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