--- Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Interesting point. But the spawned shells should inherit the > parent's > environment and that was created at login. In fact, all the other > definitions in .bash_profile are inherited; only LD_LIBRARY_PATH is > overwritten. > > Also, LD_LIBRARY_PATH used to be passed through (in earlier releases > of > RHL). Then it stopped, then it worked for a while again (in some > recent > releases), and now in FC4 at least, it's stopped again. It's only > lost in > a graphical login. It may be gdm or Metacity that is doing the > overwriting. > > BTW, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164869. This bug is exactly what I met. After I set it in .bashrc, I get LD_LIBRARY_PATH in Terminal. But I still cannot get it in some applications likes Eclipse. I have to launch Eclipse from Terminal, only this way LD_LIBRARY_PATH works fine in the application. Leon ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
