[LAD] question on dynamic linking

[Arnold Krille]

Hohi,

Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2007 schrieb nescivi:
> I am having a discussion on the supercollider front about what is the
> proper way for dynamic linking.
> as far as I know, you use ldconfig and have the library location that
> programs dynamically link to defined in /etc/ld.so.conf
> but what is supposed to happen if the user just installs the program to a
> directory in his home directory?
> how should the dynamic linking be defined?

At least on linux the environment-variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH has to include the 
path where the libs are installed if they are installed in non-standard 
places. Some distros even have that variable include $HOME/lib per default.

Arnold

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