Re: install hell

[Nicola Pero]

> 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.