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Re: environment variables in CLI
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 01:24:08PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 01:08:41PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:43:11PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> > > Breakpoint 1 at 0x80af805: file main.cpp, line 469.
> > > (gdb) r
> > > main-program: error while loading shared libraries: libqt.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> >
> > That isn't "GDB's search path for shared libraries", it's the system
> > path; the error does not come from GDB. You do need to set
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> O, OK. I see the problem. The problem is, I have the C and C++ shared
> libraries in /home/foo/lib. I don't want to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> before I start GDB, or it'll use those libraries.
>
> If I do 'set environment LD_LIBRARY_PATH=...' does that only effect the
> inferior, and not GDB? The help says,
Correct.
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