On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Peter Clifton wrote: > Hi, > > I was thinking a bit about the need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH for the > common case where a user installs gEDA in their home directory. It > represents one more barrier to getting things working, and stops users > being able to create desktop launchers pointing directly at the > application. (You'd need a wrapper script). > > It turns out that linking with libtool: > libtool --mode=link gcc ..... > > will add an appropriate RPATH entry for the libraries we link with. This > should solve the problem, and as we already (IIRC) hard-code a path to > the GEDADATADIR in libgeda anyway. > > Is this a good idea?
Since it munges a system variable, doesn't it require root access? Stuart _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
