[Fedora-directory-users] Paths to executables and libraries

[Richard Megginson]

Oscar A. Valdez wrote:
> El lun, 18-09-2006 a las 16:40 -0700, Noriko Hosoi escribió:
>   
>> Oscar A. Valdez wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> My installation of fedora-ds-1.0.1-1.RHEL4 puts executables
>>> in /opt/fedora-ds/shared/bin/ and libraries
>>> in /opt/fedora-ds/shared/lib/.
>>>
>>> What would you all recomend as a "proper" way of modifying the $PATH
>>> variable and of linking to the DS libraries?
>>>  
>>>
>>>       
>> If you don't mind overriding the system ldap commands, which are 
>> normally located in /usr/bin, you could do
>> $ export PATH=/opt/fedora-ds/shared/bin:$PATH
>>     
>
> I don't seem to have any ldap binaries in /usr/bin. Which ones are you
> referring to?
>   
Hm - you must not have the openldap client or tools package installed.
>   
>> $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/fedora-ds/shared/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>>     
>
> Using LD_LIBRARY_PATH is supposed to be "A Bad Thing". Why not
> # ldconfig /opt/fedora-ds/shared/lib
>   
That works too, as long as you can guarantee that having those libraries 
in the default path won't mess up other apps e.g. on RHEL4 Firefox and 
Thunderbird use private copies of nspr, nss, and mozldap, which are 
different versions than those in /opt/fedora-ds/shared/lib.
> Thanks for your reply.
>   

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