fribidi error with abiword on F11

[Globe Trotter]

--- On Wed, 9/30/09, Sharpe, Sam J <sam.sharpe+lists.redhat at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Sharpe, Sam J <sam.sharpe+lists.redhat at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: fribidi error with abiword on F11
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 2:56 PM
> 2009/9/30 Globe Trotter <itsme_410 at yahoo.com>:
> 
> >> 2) Can you show that the libfribidi.so.0 library
> is found
> >> and
> >> linked with /usr/lib/libabiword-2.6.so?
> >> Run: ldd -r /usr/lib/libabiword-2.6.so|grep frib
> >
> > ldd -r /usr/lib/libabiword-2.6.so|grep frib
> >        libfribidi.so.0 =>
> /usr/local/lib/libfribidi.so.0 (0x00502000)
> > undefined symbol: fribidi_get_type    
>  (/usr/lib/libabiword-2.6.so)
> >
> > As root, things are fine and I get:
> >
> > ldd -r /usr/lib/libabiword-2.6.so|grep frib
> >        libfribidi.so.0 =>
> /usr/lib/libfribidi.so.0 (0x06d14000)
> >
> > Not as user, though. How do I track this?
> 
> Mmmmm.... that's interesting. As root it's resolving to a
> library in
> /usr/lib but as the user it's resolving to a library in
> /usr/local/lib
> (why do you have fribidi libraries in /usr/local/lib?)
> 
> What's the output of this command as root and as the user?
> # echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Aha! Here we go:

As root:

# echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

(nothing)

As user:

$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/usr/local/lib


Clearly some setting somewhere which got set: wonder where.It happened after a installing the printer and the associated hp* rpms, btw.

Best wishes,
T