[2185] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Need a ruling on silly Andrew config.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Mar 31 09:53:58 2000
Message-Id: <200003311453.JAA23478@small-gods.mit.edu>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:43:38 EST."
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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:53:51 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Invading /usr/local for the sake of Andrew is probably a bad thing.
Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH for everyone in the Athena dotfiles, pointing
to the andrew locker, is definitely a bad thing.
As annoying as it is, you're going to have to make front-end scripts
which set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when users run the ez programs. There's no
other answer which doesn't place a penalty on everybody for the sake
of ez. (Well, modulo building from source.) This is essentially what
Alex has to do for binary installations of third-party software in
lockers.
