From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 11 23:26:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from intergate.luciamar.k12.ca.us (intergate.luciamar.k12.ca.us [209.129.95.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 141BE15261 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 23:25:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dknapp@luciamar.k12.ca.us) Received: from luciamar.k12.ca.us (cas1-191.snlo.dialup.slonet.org [207.114.217.191]) by intergate.luciamar.k12.ca.us (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA13205 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 23:23:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37119758.5C7D2653@luciamar.k12.ca.us> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 23:48:56 -0700 From: David Knapp X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH - undefined variable References: <37102EE7.428498AA@luciamar.k12.ca.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bad newbie! Ok, I think I just figured out that the LD_LIBRARY_PATH should be the location that my lib files are in - oops! Also, I figured out that the $ in the export line corresponds to the shell in use. So, I should have a # instead of a $ in my statement. I think this will fix it. dbk David Knapp wrote: > > I'm trying to install Star Offic3 5.01. I have the so5o.out script from > lt.tar.com in front of me, and it has worked out well, but I am stuck at > one point. I'm trying to perform the > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/so501/glibc2_inst:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH > statement. That didn't work, but in the glibc2_inst readme, it says > that for my shell I must use setenv. So I do a: > setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /tmp/so501/glibc2_inst:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH > that gives me an undefined variable error. I'm just typing it in at my > # prompt. > > The other strange thing is that it worked once while I was in X - or at > least didn't give me an error, so then I tried to run the setup for Star > Office and it gave me errors saying that it couldn't find files like > libutil-2.0.7.so and ld-2.0.7.so - files that are in the glibc2_inst > directory. I thought that doing the setenv for the LD_LIBRARY_PATH was > going to fix that but it didn't. So, I logged in again, star office > couldn't find the files again. I typed in the setenv statement, and now > I get the undefined variable error message. > > Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. > > dbk > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message