tech-pkg: Re: Use of /etc/ld.so.conf and LD_LIBRARY

Subject: Re: Use of /etc/ld.so.conf and LD_LIBRARY_PATH
To: Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@iki.fi>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@cs.stevens.edu>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/01/2005 21:32:30

On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
> And now the question: do you guys have any other arguments why the
> current behavious (/etc/ld.so.conf or LD_LIBRARY_PATH) is evil and it's
> really a good idea to use "-Wl,-rpath $(libdir)" like we do in pkgsrc?

ld.so.conf needs root acces to change,
and LD_LIBRARY_PATH needs to be set by every user on a system,
plus affects also programs under all emulations, e.g.Linux programs will 
act up.

  - Hubert