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Re: ld.so cares about /usr/X11R6?
- To: glibc-linux@ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu
- Subject: Re: ld.so cares about /usr/X11R6?
- From: Ronald de Man <deman@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 23:59:08 +0200
- References: <199905262037.QAA12645@ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu> <Pine.LNX.3.96.990526225456.16419C-100000@panorama.hadiko.de>
- Reply-To: glibc-linux@ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 11:33:12PM +0200, Robert Siemer wrote:
>
> Question:
> Why does ld.so cares more about my directory-hierarchie and its symlinks
> instead to decide from LD_LIBRARY_PATH and /etc/ld.so.cache??
> How can I run this application even with a symlink from /usr/X11R6 to
> X11R6-libc6?
>
My guess is that /usr/X11R6 was hardcoded somehow... I don't know if
that's really possible, but I had something similar once with a
libc5 based JDK. Editing the binary by hand might help...
Ronald