Rich Teer wrote: > On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Joachim Worringen wrote: > >> our software stack is installed to /opt/DIS, and contains some libraries >> that everyone should be able to use w/o setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This >> can easily be achieved using "crle -l /opt/DIS/lib -u" in the >> installation script/package (same thing for 64bit). >> >> If this is the right way to *add* the path - what is the right way to >> *remove* it on uninstall? crle does not seem to provide such an option, >> /var/ld/ld.config is a binary file (why the hell...?), and parsing the >> output of "crle" is not what I consider a solid solution. >> >> Any recommendations? > > Yes; don't do the crle thing in the first place when installing your > package. Encourage developers who use your libraries to link their > apps correctly, using -R/opt/DIS/lib. > > HTH,
Unfortunately, not (like all the other -R approaches), as the library in question is for LD_PRELOAD usage (for socket acceleration). Please spare any "LD_PRELOAD is bad" comments as they are not helpful in this context. We could of course do some link magic from /usr/lib[/64] - anything else? Joachim -- Joachim Worringen, Software Architect, Dolphin Interconnect Solutions phone ++49/(0)228/324 08 17 - http://www.dolphinics.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
