[FC4]LD_LIBRARY_PATH unset by unknown application

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Tim Waugh wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 06:35:15AM -0700, Leon Pu wrote:
>
>> Could anybody help me to solve the problem?
>
> Have you configured gnome-terminal to run the shell as a login shell?
> The profile won't be loaded otherwise.

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.

I've seen people say that LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not the "right" way to get a 
library into your path, but if you are a user and you don't have access to 
ld.so.conf, but you need a library in some obscure subdirectory (maybe 
one of your own that shouldn't pollute ld.so.conf anyway), what *is* 
the "right" way.

>
> Tim.
> */
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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