Subject: Re: reminder: xsetup url
To: Andrew Foakes <andrew@foakes.demon.co.uk>
From: Colin Wood <ender@is.rice.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/01/1997 17:21:33
> >i noticed a lot of discussion of x setup stuff.
> >
> >try this:
> >
> >http://macaroni.cs.wits.ac.za/xsetup.html
> 
> except that it says that an alternative to ldconfig is to set up 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH and this doesn't seem to work.  Has just setting 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH worked for anyone?
> 
> The rest is useful, so thanks for that.
> 

I believe that the reason why the LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't work is that 
one of the shells that is started during the X startup process apparently 
doesn't manage to inherit this value.  If you add the appropriate line to 
both you .profile and your .cshrc file, I believe it will probably work.

Later.

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