[GRASS5] Debian and d.m/d.zoom bug - /etc/ld.so.conf

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:18:59PM +0000, Paul Kelly wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Markus Neteler wrote:
> 
> [...]
> >d.m is now updated in CVS.
> >Debian users: please try again (don't forget to revert the /etc/ld.so.conf 
> >change
> >for testing, run ldconfig as well).
> >
> >I had to modify lib/init/grass-run.sh to make it working for Fedora:
> >
> >LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:"$GISBASE/lib"
> >                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^-added
> >
> >Hopefully this problem is resolved now.
> 
> Well in general it looks like it should just be passing on the current 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH (whatever that contains). Would something like
> exec xterm -e LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$env(LD_LIBRARY_PATH) d.zoom
> (in the Tcl code) not work?
> 
> And there is also the problem (noted in Glynn's original e-mail) that e.g. 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH is called different things on different platforms, e.g. 
> DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH on OS X. But this can be fixed by dynamically 
> substituting the correct variable name in at compile-time like is done for 
> lib/init/init.sh
> 
> Paul

[isn't it easier to handle such necessary conditions in grass-run.sh
 rather than messing up d.m.tcl? ]

Please submit further changes directly to CVS (I would like to
leave this problem to more skilled programmers than me :-)

Thanks

 Markus