[FC4]LD_LIBRARY_PATH unset by unknown application

[Leon Pu]

--- Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
> Interesting point.  But the spawned shells should inherit the
> parent's 
> environment and that was created at login.  In fact, all the other 
> definitions in .bash_profile are inherited; only LD_LIBRARY_PATH is 
> overwritten.
> 
> Also, LD_LIBRARY_PATH used to be passed through (in earlier releases
> of 
> RHL).  Then it stopped, then it worked for a while again (in some
> recent 
> releases), and now in FC4 at least, it's stopped again.  It's only
> lost in 
> a graphical login.  It may be gdm or Metacity that is doing the 
> overwriting.
> 
> BTW, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164869.

This bug is exactly what I met.

After I set it in .bashrc, I get LD_LIBRARY_PATH in Terminal.

But I still cannot get it in some applications likes Eclipse. I have to
launch Eclipse from Terminal, only this way LD_LIBRARY_PATH works fine
in the application.


Leon


		
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