Date: 11 Apr 2003 16:49:24 -0800 From: Jon Reynolds <jonr@destar.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Greetings! Message-ID: <1050108564.1495.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <3EBFA476.8070905@comcast.net> References: <3EBFA476.8070905@comcast.net>
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On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 05:41, Timothy R. Simmons wrote: > I have a (hopefully) simple question, so please forgive my ignorance. > But heck, we all have to start somewhere. > Okay, I've been using FreeBSD for about a month now, and am tinkeringly > famliar with C and C++ coding, which is to say, I usetacould. Anyway, > I've been installing some programs designed primarily for linux systems, > which seem to use an ld.so.conf file in /etc to point to libraries, > which updates, I'm guessing, LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. > Neither of these seem to exist in the BSD world, so here's my question. > How do I update the path where libraries and header files are searched > for? BSD seems to like to put things in /usr/lib, /usr/bin, etc.. where > as the programs I'm installing are placing these files, by default, in > /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/bin, etc., which isn't IN my path for lib and > bin files. I can see where it sets the path on boot, but can't manage to > figure out how to change it. Any help would be appreciated. > > - Tim > Have you tried using the linux compatibility emulator? It is in /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base. Maybe that is what your are looking for. -- Jon Reynolds <jonr@destar.net>
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