suggestions about MacOS DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH patch

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Tue Jul 14 22:02:03 CDT 2009


Juan Lang wrote:
> Hi Joerg,
>
>   
>> please make suggestions about the xyz_LIBRARY_PATH MacOS issue that allows
>> libpng.so and libfreetype.so to be found at run-time in /usr/X11/lib (bug 17674).
>>     
>
> I agree with Alexandre on this one:  it's just an error in your
> configuration.  You can address it by adding /usr/X11/lib to
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH or DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH in your ~/.bash_profile
> or ~/.bashrc if you like, assuming you start wine apps from the
> command line.  If you use some other launcher, the environment needs
> to be set correctly for that.
>   

No, I won't and I can't.  So there.  Wine will need a startup script to
fix this problem.  That is what Zach Drayer and Mike Kronenberg do. 
This is what OpenOffice.org does. 

Fink and MacPorts both build their own LD_LIBRARY_PATH and permenantly
alter it.

James McKenzie




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