Xterm and .Xresources

[gzf at gbr.msd.ray.com (Jerry Feldman {75562})]

Christoph Doerbeck A242369 wrote:

> LD_LIBRARY_PATH is another such variable that does the same thing.  I
> believe that one of these was introduced with CDE, and was simply
> adopted by applications to work in general.  Don't know for sure...

LD_LIBRARY_PATH was introduced as a result of shared libraries, and has very
little to do with X per se, except that you can use it to point Linux (and
other Unixes) at an additional shared library directory. LD_LIBRARY_PATH is
used to override the standard places that the system looks for shared
libraries. The system defaults are set up from /etc/ld.so.conf
(/etc/ld.so.cache). 
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