Re: [gentoo-dev] standards/conventions? (LDPATH, include files)

[Zach Forrest]

Missed one thing...

When should a file be added to env.d? The package I'm putting together, 
by default, puts its libraries in /usr/lib? I've noticed that packages 
like mozilla put their libraries in something like /usr/lib/mozilla/lib. 
I know when unpacking mozilla it stores its libraries in the lib 
subdirectory of mozilla, so would this be an indication of when to add a 
file to env.d? In other words, should I accept the default location and 
then, if the default is not the standard /usr/lib, add a file to env.d?

Thanks.

Dan Armak wrote:

> On Thursday 06 December 2001 21:33, you wrote:
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>Good questions. I've been wondering the same thing myself.
>>
>>I also have a somewhat related question.  Gentoo Linux doesn't seem to set
>>a global LD_LIBRARY_PATH environmental variable like most mainstream linux
>>distributions (RedHat, Debian, etc.) do.  I far as I can tell, this is a
>>_good_ thing. (see http://www.visi.com/~barr/ldpath.html).  However, some
>>applications look for this variable.  Is there a way, around this?
>>Specifically, I've been looking into Webmin
>>(http://www.webmin.com/webmin/), and trying to work up some gentoo config
>>files for it.  The top level config file seems to want LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  At
>>least that is what is in the config files for the other distributions.
>>
> Hi,
>
> In Gentoo LD_LIBRARY_PATH is called simply LDPATH. Legend has it drobbins
> simply renamed it because he was tired of typing the longer version :-) Under
> /etc/env.d you will see a lot of files setting that variable.
>
> However, it doesn't actually get exported to your shell. Instead, env-update
> changes /etc/ld.so.conf to include those dirs.
>
> So if you app is well written just let it think LD_LIBRARY_PATH is empty and
> that everything is ni standard dirs - it is. Is that approach problematic?
>
> I believe that's all, have I missed something?
>
>