[arch-general] Howto properly set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /opt/trinity/lib from PKGBUILD (postbuild)

[David C. Rankin]

On 02/07/2011 06:21 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:10 PM, David C. Rankin
> <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com>  wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>>         After building trinity-kdelibs, I need to create an entry and set
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /opt/trinity/lib. I manually created:
>> '/etc/ld.so.conf.d/trinity.conf' containing "/opt/trinity/lib" and then ran
>> ldconfig. That worked.
>>
>>         What I need to know is how to properly do this from the kdelibs
>> PKBUILD. I can do it by creating the file in $pkgdir, but is there a
>> standard way to do it? Also, what about calling ldconfig after install? Is
>> there a standard (post-install) snippet to add?
>
> i don't see anything wrong with the package doing both, but i can't
> comment on an "official" method.
>
> sometimes it's appropriate (when the binaries are 1 or very few) to
> make a wrapper that adds the path before invocation.
>
> the other option (i think firefox does something like this) is to add
> the path and re-export from an /etc/profile.d/ script, which would run
> once at login.  if you look in that directory you will see similar
> mods to the environment by packages.
>
> C Anthony
>

Thank you Matthew and C Anthony,

	That's what I needed. I just want some reference that I can use and feel 
reasonably confident that it is a proper approach and not a hack I'm using that 
will bite me later. I'll look at qt3 and xulrunner.

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David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E.