Re: Mozilla followup

[Larry Zimmerman <laz walleye gonefishing sk ca>]

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	On Sat, 30 May 1998 Larry Zimmerman wrote:
	>Jochen Kuepper <jochen@uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote:
	>> On Sat, 30 May 1998 Larry Zimmerman wrote:
	>	
	>> >You have to edit /etc/ld.so.conf to point to the mozilla shared
	>> >libraries that came with the executable, and run ldconfig.
	>	
	>> NO!
	>> You have to set you LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the mozilla library and bin-dirs.
	>> Don't mess around with /etc/ld.so.conf.
	>
	>Gee , I didn't know that - I've changed /etc/ld.so.conf a few times
	>to get things to work - but I'm basically the only user on this system.
	>I've changed my mozilla startup script to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH for
	>mozilla if it's not already set. If you have time Jochen, could you
	>check it and see if it's okay. I added this:
	>mp=`expr "$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" : ".*\(/usr/local/lib/mozilla\).*"`
	>if [ "$mp" = "" ]
	>then
	>  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib/mozilla
	>fi
	
Jochen Kuepper <jochen@uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote:
>I changed it a bit (well, first, mozilla is at a different place ..
> You nedd to add mozillas bin-dir to LD_LIBRARY path
> if you use the lsl-directory structure.
I copied all the files from bin and lib to /usr/local/lib/mozilla.
None of the files in "lib" show up with "ldd".

> The mozilla lib-dirs need to be first in LD_LIBRARY_PATH if you do
[snip]
> ld.so.conf is meant to be obsolete anyhow, cause you can do the same by setting
> an environment variable (LD_LIBRARY_PATH). And you can see one of the drawbacks
> up there (jpeg). How do you manage that mozilla uses it's own libjpeg, but no
> other program uses that mozilla lib but the system libjpeg with ld.so.conf ?

Oh yeah, it's a question of searching libraries in the right order!
Thanks for pointing that out.

Larry Z.