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Date:      Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:33:03 +0900 (JST)
From:      NAKATA Maho <chat95@mac.com>
To:        mihnea_capraru@fastmail.fm
Cc:        freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org, openoffice@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports/103896: OO.o port should add <OO_DIR>/program to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Message-ID:  <20061003.173303.32717938.chat95@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <200610030655.48573.mihnea_capraru@fastmail.fm>
References:  <200610021051.k92ApQTL099708@freefall.freebsd.org> <20061003.094837.118629176.chat95@mac.com> <200610030655.48573.mihnea_capraru@fastmail.fm>

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From: Mihnea Capraru <mihnea_capraru@fastmail.fm>
Subject: Re: ports/103896: OO.o port should add <OO_DIR>/program to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 06:55:48 +0000

> Right. What I meant is that LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set automatically when 
> running a UNO application written in Java that needs to bootstrap 
> OpenOffice.org. Since soffice would only be run at this point (at bootstrap), 
> the JVM will never even be able to find soffice 
> in /usr/local/openoffice-***/program, because this entry would only be added 
> to LD_LIBRARY_PATH by soffice itself (and this is circular).
> 
> This is why I was suggesting to update system-wide LD_LIBRARY_PATH. But if 
> this is considered too intrusive, then perhaps install a symlink to soffice 
> in /usr/local/lib (libexec?). 	

First of all adding LD_LIBRARY_PATH is harmful.
Such patch (simply adding globally LD_LIBRARY_PATH) will never be integrated.
And I think if we use $ORIGIN, such kind of problem will disapper.
Currently we are working at this implementation. Hope 6.3 will include
this.

thanks,
-- NAKATA, Maho (maho@FreeBSD.org)
 



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