[Gllug] simple bash problem

[Tom Gilbert]

* mike (mike at redtux.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 19:56, Richard Cohen wrote:
> > On 23 Jan 2002, mike wrote:
> > > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$'/usr/local/gnome/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH'
> 
> BTW when I run the script everything is set apart from LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> which shows LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/gnome/lib/: and that is where it
> ends

That's because LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to "" by default, so you are
adding your path to nothing.

btw that syntax is really odd, try:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/gnome/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

However, I should point out that if this is a linux box, that extra path
should go in /etc/ld.so.conf, and then you should run ldconfig -
assuming you have access to the root account.

Tom.
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