Xterm and .Xresources

[Jerry A Clabaugh]

This is one of the small points where Unix shines and NT falls
on its face: The library path and the regular path are the same
on NT, so applications have greater tendency to interfere with
one another.  Last week an NT machine I was using became unbootable
because I put another entry into the PATH, when I needed a library.
This new directory had something in it with the same name as 
a program which was part of the NT login sequence - result: can't
login anymore!

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Jerry Feldman {75562} wrote:

> 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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