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From: stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Suns 4.1 problems with X
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Date: 7 Jan 91 03:53:32 GMT
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In article <9101062227.AA00196@expire.lcs.mit.edu> rws@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Bob Scheifler) writes:
>
>    IMO, the X build procedure should instead use the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>    environment variable
>
>My understanding is that -L paths are preferred over LD_LIBRARY_PATH at
>link time.  So, if we follow your suggestion, we run into the possibility
>of trying to link against old installed versions of the libraries instead of
>the new ones in the build tree.  Not acceptable.

Why not simply relink the binary with the installed libs in the install
target of the makefile  (using absolute paths, of course) ?

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