[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: configure issue

[Peter FELECAN]

Tobias Diedrich <td at informatik.uni-hannover.de> writes:

> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> > IMHO it's not the responsibility of apps to work around a broken os
> > install. If /usr/local/lib is missing from ld.so.conf, this needs to
> > be fixed, not worked around. If you're installing your libs in a
> > strange location you should either add that to ld.so.conf or use
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH yourself, but its better not to do such a thing in the
> > first place.
> 
> Note that AFAIK on Solaris and probably other unixes there is no
> ld.so.conf and your only options are the right ld directive or setting
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH. The latter is ugly...

on solaris, you can/do use crle - configure runtime linking
environment ([...]The crle utility provides for the creation and display of
a runtime linking configuration file.[...] Defining user supplied
alternative objects provides a means of replacing dependencies other
than via symbolic links or requiring LD_LIBRARY_PATH settings.[...])
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Peter FELECAN
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