Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!bionet!turbo.bio.net!lear From: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot Lear) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Getting X11R4 up and running. Message-ID: Date: 6 Jan 90 01:56:34 GMT References: <12670@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <9001051308.AA03313@expire.lcs.mit.edu> Organization: GenBank Computing Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 10 Let me just post one caveat that I ran into. When I first started up, I wanted to leave the sharable libraries in /usr/lib/X11, as opposed to placing them in /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib. To do this, one would presume you could simply set the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and go on, but this turns out not to be the case, as a number of the programs, and in particular Xterm, are setuid. When a program is setuid, ld.so will ignore the environment variable for security reasons. -- Eliot Lear [lear@turbo.bio.net]