On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 08:55:24PM -0800, justin bengtson wrote: > something i have done in the past is to make a link to the library in /usr/lib > and then run ldconfig. this works for the X11 libraries (on my computer...) > which are in /usr/X11R6/lib. > > i don't know how "dangerous" this is, but i haven't had any problems so far.
The main difference is that with ldconfig, the libraries can be used across the system, and setting environment variables only affects progams that are started in the environment where the variable is set (like a single user's shell). It's only as dangerous as the libs you're adding ;) -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
