Fedora directory users - Sep 2006 - Paths to executables and libraries

My installation of fedora-ds-1.0.1-1.RHEL4 puts executables
in /opt/fedora-ds/shared/bin/ and libraries
in /opt/fedora-ds/shared/lib/.

What would you all recomend as a "proper" way of modifying the $PATH
variable and of linking to the DS libraries?
-- 
Oscar A. Valdez

Oscar A. Valdez wrote:
>My installation of fedora-ds-1.0.1-1.RHEL4 puts executables
>in /opt/fedora-ds/shared/bin/ and libraries
>in /opt/fedora-ds/shared/lib/.
>
>What would you all recomend as a "proper" way of modifying the
$PATH
>variable and of linking to the DS libraries?
>  
>
If you don''t mind overriding the system ldap commands, which are 
normally located in /usr/bin, you could do
$ export PATH=/opt/fedora-ds/shared/bin:$PATH
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/fedora-ds/shared/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Alternatively, you could go to the directory /opt/fedora-ds/shared/bin, 
and run the command line interface:
$ cd /opt/fedora-ds/shared/bin; ./ldapsearch <options>
This way, the library path is take care of by rpath.  If you don''t want
to make the fedora-ds command line utilities conflict with the system 
ones, you may want to make a script file (for each command) and set the 
<script_file_path> to your path...

--noriko

El lun, 18-09-2006 a las 16:40 -0700, Noriko Hosoi
escribió:
> Oscar A. Valdez wrote:
> 
> >My installation of fedora-ds-1.0.1-1.RHEL4 puts executables
> >in /opt/fedora-ds/shared/bin/ and libraries
> >in /opt/fedora-ds/shared/lib/.
> >
> >What would you all recomend as a "proper" way of modifying
the $PATH
> >variable and of linking to the DS libraries?
> >  
> >
> If you don''t mind overriding the system ldap commands, which are 
> normally located in /usr/bin, you could do
> $ export PATH=/opt/fedora-ds/shared/bin:$PATH
I don''t seem to have any ldap binaries in /usr/bin. Which ones are you
referring to?
> $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/fedora-ds/shared/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Using LD_LIBRARY_PATH is supposed to be "A Bad Thing". Why not
# ldconfig /opt/fedora-ds/shared/lib

Thanks for your reply.
-- 
Oscar A. Valdez
Industrias Duraflex, S.A. de C.V.

Oscar A. Valdez wrote:
> El lun, 18-09-2006 a las 16:40 -0700, Noriko Hosoi escribió:
>   
>> Oscar A. Valdez wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> My installation of fedora-ds-1.0.1-1.RHEL4 puts executables
>>> in /opt/fedora-ds/shared/bin/ and libraries
>>> in /opt/fedora-ds/shared/lib/.
>>>
>>> What would you all recomend as a "proper" way of
modifying the $PATH
>>> variable and of linking to the DS libraries?
>>>  
>>>
>>>       
>> If you don''t mind overriding the system ldap commands, which
are
>> normally located in /usr/bin, you could do
>> $ export PATH=/opt/fedora-ds/shared/bin:$PATH
>>     
>
> I don''t seem to have any ldap binaries in /usr/bin. Which ones are
you
> referring to?
>   
Hm - you must not have the openldap client or tools package
installed.
>   
>> $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/fedora-ds/shared/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>>     
>
> Using LD_LIBRARY_PATH is supposed to be "A Bad Thing". Why not
> # ldconfig /opt/fedora-ds/shared/lib
>   
That works too, as long as you can guarantee that having those libraries 
in the default path won''t mess up other apps e.g. on RHEL4 Firefox and 
Thunderbird use private copies of nspr, nss, and mozldap, which are 
different versions than those in
/opt/fedora-ds/shared/lib.
> Thanks for your reply.
>