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From: rws@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Suns 4.1 problems with X
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Date: 7 Jan 91 13:26:20 GMT
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    Perhaps I wasn't clear enough; what I meant was of course that
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH should be used *instead* of -L options

Then non-standard installation directories could not be made to work by default.

    The possibility of linking against old installed libraries is exactly
    the same as with the current -L specifications.

I don't think so, since I believe the -L we specify in the command line gets
searched before the default place, not after.

    there is as far as I can tell no support for
    installation in non-standard directories in the current build procedure,

A bug which should be fixed, as so many have rightfully flamed.

    and addition of this feature (if it was possible) should be independant
    of the fixing of the security problem.

How, pray tell?