Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!bloom-beacon!mintaka!think!samsung!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!ucbvax!pasteur!icsi.Berkeley.EDU!stolcke From: stolcke@icsi.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: shares libs (Was: Re: X11R4 on Sparcstation 1 solved) Message-ID: <23058@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 15 Mar 90 02:15:51 GMT References: <0ZywOA600XcgE5ekhD@andrew.cmu.edu> <22490@metropolis.super.ORG> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: stolcke@icsi.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke) Organization: International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley Lines: 22 After some experimenting with the installation of X11 libs under SunOS4.0 we came to the following conclusion: IF - you want the compiler to find X11 libs in a default place and - you want the runtime linker to find them (without ldconfig'ing) - you want to link suid programs with shared libs - you DON'T want to clutter up /usr/lib with those libs THEN - use /usr/local/lib to create a bunch of symbolic links to whereever you keep the libraries. /usr/local/lib is a "trusted" directory, although not mentioned in Sun's documentation. ---- Andreas Stolcke International Computer Science Institute stolcke@icsi.Berkeley.EDU 1957 Center St., Suite 600, Berkeley, CA 94704 (415) 642-4274 ext. 126