On Sunday 31 January 2010 09:04:35 Dave Plater wrote:
> On 01/28/2010 10:26 AM, Heinz Wiesinger wrote:
> > On Thursday 28 January 2010 02:41:28 D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Chris Cannam wrote:
> >>> Also, of course, you might _not_ want to look in either lib32 or
> >>> lib64, especially if both exist...
> >>
> >> Yeah, that is kind of a tricky issue.  I have /usr/lib, /usr/lib32 and
> >> /usr/lib64 here.  /usr/lib64 is a symlink to /usr/lib, and /usr/lib32 is
> >>  there for all the random legacy crapola that doesn't work in 64-bit for
> >>  whatever reason.
> >>
> >> Searching lib64/ would be harmless here, since it's the same as lib/,
> >> but that probably isn't a safe bet for a good practice to perform across
> >> all Linuxdom.
> >>
> >> The suggestion about looking at the LADSPA_PATH environment variable is
> >>  sound enough, but I don't have that set myself in an out of the box
> >> setup. That suggests leading down a road where we have some "Could not
> >> find your LADSPA thingummies, please set this environment variable"
> >> dialog, and then get massive uproar from userland about the horribly
> >> confusing dialog upsetting our »realities« about something or other,
> >> because the word "environment variable" needs to be translated to what
> >> it truly is (impactulescent dinglefarffle, obviously), and yadda yadda
> >> blah.
> >>
> >> The best thing to do does not seem particularly clear to me.
> >
> > FWIW, if LADSPA_PATH is not set on your distro by default, this is most
> > likely a bug in the ladspa_sdk package of your distro and should be
> > reported and fixed.
> > Even the ladpsa core utils need this variable set. For example
> > "listplugins" doesn't work without that variable.
> >
> > Grs,
> > Heinz
> 
> DSSI_PATH also doesn't exist by default either, both dssi and ladspa
> would have to find and install the path environment variable on first
> use but it doesn't seem like a common thing. The ordering of the paths
> to search is the secret to correct path discovery as rosegarden stops
> searching on the first correct path found.
> Regards
> Dave P

Good catch, I didn't know there was a similar variable for dssi as well.
As for the ordering, that is of course true. However, and ordering of 
ENV_VAR:arch specific libdirs:libdirs seems like a good start.

Grs,
Heinz

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