On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:09 AM, wes <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Rich Shepard > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Why's firefox looking in wx and grass6.4 directories for libraries it >> needs? Something's screwy here. >>
It will look in lots of places, depending on your system configuration. Everything in /etc/ld.so.conf, for starters. This outlines the search algorithm, to a degree: http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/notes/rpath.html It's not uncommon for apps to search all kinds of different (nonsensical) places. The aren't particularly smart about it. If you know where the libraries are, you can add that path to /etc/ld.so.conf (it's just a list of paths -- you may need to run ldconfig after doing that... I'm not clear on the interactions), or set LD_LIBRARY_PATH before running firefox, eg: $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.10:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.10/firefox-bin If that works, then at least you know what the problem is. --Rogan > > > Who knows? > > Try placing libxul.so in one of the places it's looking for and see if it > works. > > Did you compile firefox yourself or use a pre-compiled binary? > > -wes > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
