Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH unset

Thanks Steven,

The setenv was used just to prove that the .bash_profile was being set - 
which it did. The shell in use is bash.

Your explanation is quite thorough and I appreciate it Steven,
however, why is the .bash_profile definition not preserved?

Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On Wednesday, Aug 16th 2006 at 14:08 +0100, quoth Martin Raskovsky:
>
> =>Hi,
> =>
> =>I have just installed Red Hat Enterpresie 4 and have a problem with
> =>LD_LIBRARY_PATH which is set in my .bash_profile but appears unset in all
> =>shells. I have even placed a setenv > log as the last statement in the
> =>.bash_profile, the file does contain the correct LD_LIBRARY_PATH definition.
> =>
> =>Needless to say, there is an export statement for LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> =>All other environment definitions including PATH are correctly preserved.
> =>I am using GNOME
>
> The LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable should hardly *ever* be set. Please use the 
> /etc/ld.so.conf file instead. The only time you should be using this 
> variable is if you are running a program which has a choice at execution 
> time for which shared library you want to select from.
>
> Having said all that, the setenv is a csh command and you seem to be 
> setting your variable in your .bash_profile 
>
> Wrong place dude. If you are running a csh flavored shell then you need to 
> set it in you ~/.login
>
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