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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!tezcat!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!wuff.mayn.de!wuff.franken.de!colwyn!not-for-mail 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 Organization: Privates Internet Ost-Westfalen-Lippe Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5aelbp$ekf@colwyn.owl.de> References: <5a9ht3$sn6@wsrcc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lyssa.owl.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5047 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? -- Matthias Scheler http://colwyn.owl.de/~tron/