--- Ed Hill <ed@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 21:30 -0400, David Scriven wrote: > > Hi Ed, > > > > No, not for installed Matlab, but for stand-alone applications > > on machines that don't have Matlab installed, so no, I don't > > believe I'm doing anything wrong. > > Ok, I misunderstood the "stand-alone" part. > > So, exactly what isn't working for you? Your description is pretty > vague. > > If all you want to do is set some environment variables, then there > are > many ways to accomplish that. One quick/easy method is to "wrap" > your > executable by writing a shell script that sets all the necessary > environment vars, etc. before calling the actual executable. Many > programs use such a wrapper strategy. > > Ed > That's a solution, but it becomes a nuisance when deploying a number of different applications. I was trying MatLAB's recommended approach which was to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH What I don't understand is why one cannot set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in /etc/profile. If you put LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/matlabpath" (say) export LD_LIBRARY_PATH RUBBISH="trash" export RUBBISH in /etc/profile you'll find that RUBBISH is set but LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set after login. One can set LD_LIBRARY_PATH manually - ie. from the prompt and things work fine. My guess that somewhere it is being UNSET, but I can't figure out where. This happens on different machines running either FC4 or FC5. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
