Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[Raf <rafalk cse unsw edu au>]

Josh Babcock wrote:
> At first I thought that I was experiencing a known problem with 
> ssh-agent, but when I removed it from my .xsession file the problem 
> didn't go away. Before running xinit, my LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set exactly 
> as it was in my profile, but when I open a shell from within sawfish 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH is unset, completely absent. This is causing me a lot of 
> problems. I can get around it by setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH in my .bashrc 
> file, but that is an ugly hack and will undoubtedly cause confusion down 
> the line. I really want to be able to set this variable in my .profile 
> and not have to worry about it.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem?

I haven't used bash for ages, but I remember much annoyance regarding 
its handling of .profile vs .bash_profile.

Anyway:
- what does your ~/.bash_profile contain?
- when you "open a shell from within sawfish", are you using a terminal? 
 which terminal? what is the sawfish command that runs this? if you 
open a terminal and run zsh, does that source the right files? what 
about a different terminal?
- also, which distro are you on?
- look here: 
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/msg/7f38c881979b96c5?dmode=source&hl=en
and here:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/msg/23c10360ddcc3e87?dmode=source&hl=en

Just throwing some ideas your way, hopefully one of them will work. If 
not, I suggest using the Z shell instead of bash ;)

Raf.