From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 15 20:45:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA25540 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 20:45:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA25535 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 20:45:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA07008; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 23:45:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 23:45:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Tim Vanderhoek cc: John Polstra , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF problems to occur In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, John Polstra wrote: > > Actually, I like this idea. It makes a lot of sense, especially for > > ports. > > So long as no one's suggesting removing LD_LIBRARY_PATH... Of course not. Please don't let my verbose postings against LD_LIBRARY_PATH be intrepreted as a call for it's removal. LD_LIBRARY_PATH is an adaquet tool for a limited case of problems. I am trying to point out that the use of LD_LIBRARY_PATH does not belong in the system as provided by the FreeBSD Project (base, X11, ports etc). -- | Matthew N. Dodd |This space | '78 Datsun 280Z | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net |is for rent| '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message