Re: install hell

[Larry Coleman]

I've had the same problem using xterm under WindowMaker. Changing the xterm
settings to make it a login shell fixed it. I don't use KDE, but my guess is
that it's the same issue. This fix seems safer than hacking on /etc/ld.so.conf.

Larry Coleman
larry@studio1620.com


Quoting Nicola Pero <nicola@brainstorm.co.uk>:

> 
> > And to top it all off, while I can build apps, I can't run them at any
> terminals from within KDE. I get a 
> > travis@sumfin:~$ ExampleSetTest 
> > ExampleSetTest: error while loading shared libraries: libGSUnit.so.1:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
> > 
> > The weird thing... if I flip to a console, it works fine!
> > Looking at it more, it appears that any terminal window under KDE has 
> > the GNUSTEP vars set, but LD_LIBRARY_PATH cleared, if I source the 
> > GNUstep.sh, it gets set fine. Why can't GNUstep just put libraries where 
> > the rest of the system puts them?
> 
> A simple solution is to add the two lines
> 
> /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries
> /usr/GNUstep/Local/Library/Libraries
> 
> to /etc/ld.so.conf, then run `ldconfig' everytime you install a library.  
> Then the libraries will be automatically found no matter if
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set or not.
> 
> 
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