Re: how to provide extra library paths?

On 8/31/07, Michael Marsh <michael.a.marsh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/31/07, P Kapat <kap4lin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Michael, thanks for taking the time out for this issue...
> > Here is .bashrc: (kindly bear with the unnecessary aliases and may be
> > broken lines. Also for anonymity I have changed the actual hostname
> > and username.)
> [snip]
>
> I don't see anything obvious in it.
>
> > My guess is that KDE is "sourcing" .bash_profile to set the
> > environment variables at login. And when konsole or xterm is started,
> > only .bashrc gets sourced. Now, in between somehow, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is
> > getting unset!!!
>
> The real question is what is KDE doing between first sourcing your
> profile and then running xterm. Since I don't have KDE installed, I
> don't know what files it might be running.
>
> Presumably, you have something like .kde, .kderc, or Desktop in your
> home directory. Does grep find anything about LD_LIBRARY_PATH in any
> of those?

well, there is a .kde directory where all kde related configurations get stored, but no LD_LIBRARY_PATH in any of those files (even binary)... I will have to study the KDE startup nicely sometime. Btw, I am logging into KDE from GDM. Would that play any role?

> Well, ruling things out is helpful. I'm pretty much stumped, though.
>
> BTW, the lines in your .xsession-errors are output from your .bashrc
> being run by something that doesn't have a tty output. That's
> probably the initial sourcing at session start-up.

I think it was from .bash_profile. Is it possible to know which program modified the .xsession-errors last?

-- 
Regards
PK
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