Re: install hell

[Stefan Urbanek]

On 2003-06-21 02:59:32 +0200 Nicola Pero <nicola@brainstorm.co.uk> wrote:

> > 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?

Because gnustep does not fit into the standard model.

> 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.

This is kind of hack. How it would be possible not to use ld.so.conf at all? 
Having to deal with ld.so.conf just adds to installation complications.

Stefan