Re: Solaris: patches to run-octave.in

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 29-Nov-2007, Moritz Borgmann wrote:
> 
> | hm. We could make it conditional and not set LD_PRELOAD on Solaris. 
> | Other than that, I fail to see immediate solutions. Or we could try 
> | to track down what the reason was that the other systems (which 
> | ones?) didn't honor the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Maybe it's called 
> | differently on that system (like, e.g., DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH under 
> | Darwin, which configure sets correctly).
> 
> The thread where this was originally discussed is here:
> 
>   
> http://www.nabble.com/segfault-in-build-of-octave-CVS-tf2587656.html#a7226545
> 
> I dont' think it mentions exactly what system had the problem, but
> maybe David remembers.
> 
> jwe
> 

Yes the issue occurred on my Mandriva 2006 linux machine. I have no idea
why it wasn't respecting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable, and was loading
the installed versions. I didn't use rpath in the build, so that's not it.

D,