I'm surprised that since it installs in a non-standard location that it doesn't create a /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ conf file. In that case it's a simple drop-in file that only requires ldconfig to be run after the package installation....
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Filipe Brandenburger
> Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 12:26 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: Cannot get LD_LIBRARY_PATH to work
> under NX (freenx)
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 15:04, Andrzej
> Szymanski<szymans@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > However, moving this to .bashrc is a workaround. If I log
> in graphically
> > to the console the LD_LIBRARY_PATH from .bash_profile is
> set correctly.
> > It is unset only on NX session (and the other settings from
> > .bash_profile are set properly, so this file is definitely
> parsed during
> > nx session startup).
>
> I use the "real" NX, not FreeNX, and I know it installs under /usr/NX,
> so I know it will use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to find its own libraries. I
> believe it will probably reset (erase) the contents of LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> once the O.S. processes (window manager, etc.) are started.
>
> As I said, if your terminal emulator opened a "login" shell you would
> not have problems leaving the setting in .bash_profile, as it would be
> read again when you open a new shell (if you are starting your
> application through a shell). However, I believe this is not really
> very standardized. As a rule of thumb, I try to put as much as
> possible in .bashrc and leave only the source of .bashrc in
> .bash_profile, as this increases the chances of it "just working".
>
> And while you say "moving this to .bashrc is a workaround", I would
> say that using LD_LIBRARY_PATH is a workaround, or at least a kludge,
> since software that is properly installed would never need it... The
> interaction of different software packages that need to use it will
> always cause this kind of issues, and there is usually nothing much
> short of other workarounds or kludges that can be done about it...
>
> Filipe
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