[gdal-dev] Difference of bin and bin_safe directories/ tools in FWTools (?)

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 11:40 -0500, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Nikos Alexandris wrote:
> > I have a rather simple question for developers... I think.
> > 
> > [Under Ubuntu 7.10, without gdal-bin installed from the ubuntu repo's]
> > 
> > I cannot read kml files with ogrinfo (and use ogr2ogr) from within the
> > FWTools/bin directory but I can do it from within FWTools/bin_safe   and
> > from within OpenEV as well.
> > 
> > What is the difference?
> 
> Nikos,
> 
> The bin_safe directory contains scripts which set various environment
> variables before running the real executables in the bin directory.
> The most important environment variable is LD_LIBRARY_PATH so that the
> correct shared libraries are found.
> 
> These bin_safe cover scripts accomplish the same effect as sourcing the
> fwtools_env.sh script.
> 
> Best regards,

Thank you for the clarification Frank. I got it finally working when I
added the respective line to my /etc/ld.so.conf

Cheers!