Lose all KDE/GNOME icons after modifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH

t2dreamer · 06-05-2005, 05:05 AM

Hi, after modifying the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include $MATLAB/bin/glnxa64 (libraries needed to include in Fortran and C applications) all my icons are gone! When changing back the LD_LIBRARY_PATH the icons are back! (Of course this took me a while to figure out

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When I include the libraries using ldconfig there is no problem. I just cannot include in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Does anybody have a clue what happens here?

masand · 06-05-2005, 05:25 AM

why don't u include that path in /etc/ld.so.conf and then run ldconfig

regards

t2dreamer · 06-05-2005, 07:17 AM

Thanks for your reply. Of course that is exactly what I ended up doing since I have no other choice. However, this is not the way it should be, right? I am really puzzled how the modification of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH can cause my icons to disappear. That's really my question: Why? Is this a bug? Does this make sense?

masand · 06-05-2005, 08:21 AM

what i can understand is that while changing the LD_Library path

u are setting the Library only a single path while editing the ld.so.conf file u are setting multiple paths i.e adding the existing path to the already setup paths

and working with ld.so.conf is fine

regards