Re: Strange problem...

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Saturday, October 18, 2003, at 01:51 PM, Martin Brecher wrote:

> Dennis Leeuw wrote:
> > Using gnustep make/base 1.8.0
> > and gnustep gui/back 0.9.0
> > I am running into a strange problem I can't figure our.
> > Using the system as described in the Build Guide and starting 
> > applications I get:
> > openapp Preferences.app
> > /usr/GNUstep/System/Applications/Preferences.app/Preferences: error 
> > while loading shared libraries: libPrefsModule.so.1: cannot open 
> > shared object file: No such file or directory
> > and
> > openapp GWorkspace
> > /usr/GNUstep/System/Applications/GWorkspace.app/GWorkspace: error 
> > while loading shared libraries: libGWorkspace.so.1: cannot open 
> > shared object file: No such file or directory
> > Resourcing GNUstep.sh solves the problem.
>
> GNUstep.sh sets up LD_LIBRARY_PATH to enable the linker to find the 
> libraries that are otherwise missing when you invoke openapp. Thus, 
> sourcing GNUstep.sh from your .bashrc is recommended to have 
> everything in place when you open a new terminal window. If you want 
> to run applications directly from Window Maker, it's advisable to also 
> source GNUstep.sh from the Window Maker autostart script in 
> ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker.

It's possible that at some time long ago you (Dennis) set up your 
/etc/ld.so.conf file to list the directories normally in 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so you didn't need to set it from GNUstep.sh ... and 
it didn't occur to you to update /etc/ld.so.conf and rerun ldconfig 
when you updated to a version of GNUstep using flattened directory 
layout.  I know that caught me out on a few machines.