On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:10 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Guys, > > After building trinity-kdelibs, I need to create an entry and set > LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /opt/trinity/lib. I manually created: > '/etc/ld.so.conf.d/trinity.conf' containing "/opt/trinity/lib" and then ran > ldconfig. That worked. > > What I need to know is how to properly do this from the kdelibs > PKBUILD. I can do it by creating the file in $pkgdir, but is there a > standard way to do it? Also, what about calling ldconfig after install? Is > there a standard (post-install) snippet to add? i don't see anything wrong with the package doing both, but i can't comment on an "official" method. sometimes it's appropriate (when the binaries are 1 or very few) to make a wrapper that adds the path before invocation. the other option (i think firefox does something like this) is to add the path and re-export from an /etc/profile.d/ script, which would run once at login. if you look in that directory you will see similar mods to the environment by packages. C Anthony
