From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 13 9:10:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A716A37BBFA for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 09:10:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA10901; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 09:10:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA52571; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 09:10:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 09:10:11 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003131710.JAA52571@vashon.polstra.com> To: patrick@137.org Subject: Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH not working? In-Reply-To: <20000313162902.29BBD5D9B@friley-162-229.res.iastate.edu> References: <20000313162902.29BBD5D9B@friley-162-229.res.iastate.edu> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <20000313162902.29BBD5D9B@friley-162-229.res.iastate.edu>, Patrick Hartling wrote: > Today I have been having problems with applications being unable to find > shared libraries at run time with LD_LIBRARY_PATH set correctly. If the > library is moved into a directory set at boot time with ldconfig (via rc), > it works fine. I have tried it with several different libraries (both C and > C++ used by both C and C++ apps), and the results are always the same. This > is on a -current system built with sources cvsup'd at approximately 09:10 > (CST) March 11, 2000. Did I overlook some configuration change? Thanks. Nothing has changed in connection with LD_LIBRARY_PATH recently. In fact, it has been at least a few weeks since the dynamic linker changed at all. Remember, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is ignored for setuid/setgid programs. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message