[25393] in Athena Bugs
Re: athena-gal does not provide "gal"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri Jan 2 12:47:39 2004
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:47:33 -0500
In-Reply-To: <1073065537.32657.74.camel@error-messages.mit.edu> (Greg
Hudson's message of "Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:45:37 -0500")
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 12:42, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> It's not the ABI that I'm worried about -- it's the athena-local
>> modifications. For example, what about the athena mods to gconfd?
>
> On Linux, you must have /usr/athena/lib in LD_LIBRARY_PATH or Athena 9.2
> will break, mostly because of those GConf mods. The gnome-panel wrapper
> will bitch at you if you have a custom setting of LD_LIBRARY_PATH which
> doesn't put /usr/athena/lib before /usr/lib.
>
> Really, we went over this at length before the 9.2 release, and this was
> the best of several non-optimal solutions. These three libraries don't
> change anything about that.
Just making sure... Thanks. I'll let you know if I find anything
else missing.
-derek
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