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From: tron@lyssa.owl.de (Matthias Scheler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH and XFree86 3.2 on NetBSD/i386
Date: 1 Jan 1997 22:35:53 +0100
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In article <5a9ht3$sn6@wsrcc.com>,
	wolfgang@wsrcc.com (Wolfgang Rupprecht) writes:
> I'm trying to get XFree86 3.2 up on virgin NetBSD/i386 system.  It
> apears that the LD_LIBRARY_PATH must be set or ldconfig must include
> the X-libs for the apps to function correctly.

Yes, of course.

> In the SunOS way of handling this, one could link an absolute path
> into the executable and ...

What should be the advantage of compiling absolute paths into binaries?

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Matthias Scheler				http://colwyn.owl.de/~tron/