[rescue] a couple of Solaris questions

[D.A. Muran-de Assereto]

Makes sense. Kind of tedious doing wrappers for all of the
stuff on the Software Companion CD, but safer.

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Dan Debertin
> Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 21:11
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> Subject: RE: [rescue] a couple of Solaris questions
>
>
> On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, D.A. Muran-de Assereto wrote:
>
> > Sounds like you need to set up an LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable.
> > Solaris uses that variable to find dynamically linked libraries
> > at runtime.
>
> This just in: LD_LIBRARY_PATH considered harmful, in favor of compiling
> your software with better paths. This was news to me a few months ago, and
> I've been sysadminning for years:
>
> http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/user_guide/faq/ld_lib_path.html
> http://www.visi.com/~barr/ldpath.html
>
> I recompiled my entire /usr/local/ tree with correctly-set -R LDFLAGS
> variables, and was able to remove LD_LIBRARY_PATH from the .profile's on
> all of my machines without any problems.
>
>
> Dan
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