Re: [patch] new FAQ entry on LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[Jonathan Wakely <cow at compsoc dot man dot ac dot uk>]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:30:04AM -0600, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:

> 
> >+      <p>This doesn't mean that the shared library isn't installed, only
> >+         that the dynamic linker can't find it. When a dynamically-linked
> >+         executable is run the linker finds and loads the required shared
> >+         libraries by searching a pre-configured list of directories. If
> >+         the directory where you've installed libstdc++-v3 is not in this
> >+         list then the libraries won't be found. The simplest way to fix
> >+         this is to use the <code>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</code> environment
> >+         variable, which is a colon-separated list of directories in which
> >+         the linker will search for shared libraries:
> 
> This looks pretty good. I'd change
> 
> installed libstdc++-v3
> 
> to
> 
> installed libstdc++
> 
> Then, I'd suggest mentioning (from the gymnastics in testsuite/lib/libstdc++.exp
> 
>     # The same applies to darwin (DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH), solaris 32 bit
>     # (LD_LIBRARY_PATH_32), solaris 64 bit (LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64), and HP-UX
>     # (SHLIB_PATH).

I've incorporated Benjamin's suggestions and will commit shortly.

2004-02-04  Jonathan Wakely  <redi@gcc.gnu.org>

	* docs/html/faq/index.html: Recommend using LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
	* docs/html/faq/index.txt: Regenerate.


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