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Date:      Thu, 18 Nov 1999 16:19:29 +0100
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
To:        Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc:        emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Acroread 3 and 4 stopped working with 3.3-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <38341901.3C471E20@scc.nl>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.20.9911181552370.24055-100000@markab.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>

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Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> 
> Bingo! We had a `setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/X11R6/lib/` in one of our
> startup files.
> 
> Interestingly, this did not matter at all with 2.2.x and 3.1-RELEASE and
> 3.2-RELEASE, probably a side effect of the new Linux mode?

Yes. It's the correct behaviour, though. If you set LD_LIBRARY_PATH then
you always have to keep in mind that it is used by both FreeBSD and
Linux mode. Since both the FreeBSD and the Linux mode ldconfig(8) work,
you don't need it most of the time.

> BTW, I noticed that http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/linuxemu.html still
> has lots of information on 2.1-STABLE. Wouldn't it be appropriate to
> remove that?

I think it would :-)

> Do you think it's the case to mention LD_LIBRARY_PATH problems on that
> page? If so, are you going to submit an update or should I try to come
> up with something? ;-)

I think it can be added, since it's quite commonly the cause of
breakages. If I wasn't so swamp in other activities, I would have
updated the docs myself, but I don't think I have the time for that in
the near future. It would be great if you could come up with something.

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar                        mailto:marcel@scc.nl
SCC Internetworking & Databases           http://www.scc.nl/
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