Forum OpenACS Q&A: echo $LD_LIBRARY

1: echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH returns nada ...

Posted by Ola Hansson on 02/15/03 02:24 PM

In the process of installing AOLserver onto my development box I have tripped on something weird.

The thing is, nothing is returned when I issue;

ola@debian:~$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 
ola@debian:~$

echo $PATH, OTOH, works fine(!)

This is the first time I have tried to run AOLserver as joeuser (i.e., "ola") as opposed to nsadmin. I wonder if this has something to do with it.

My .bash_profile has this addition to it ("/usr/local/pgsql73" being the only difference from the snippet in the install guide):

# For Oracle
export ORACLE_BASE=/ora8/m01/app/oracle
export ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/8.1.7
export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib
export ORACLE_SID=ora8
export ORACLE_TERM=vt100
export ORA_NLS33=$ORACLE_HOME/ocommon/nls/admin/data
   
# For PostgreSQL
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/pgsql73/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/pgsql73/lib

I've also made sure there is a newline at the end (I've heard the lack of it could cause problems sometimes) ...

I have also logged out and back in on both the xterm and in/out of X-window ...

What did I miss?

2: Re: echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH returns nada ... (response to 1)

Posted by xx xx on 02/15/03 04:39 PM

Does ít help to add '$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:' after LD_LIBRARY_PATH= ?

3: Re: echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH returns nada ... (response to 1)

Posted by Ola Hansson on 02/15/03 05:04 PM

Hi Aldert,

No, that does not help.

4: Re: echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH returns nada ... (response to 1)

Posted by Don Baccus on 02/15/03 06:57 PM

Try sourcing it directly, that should do it or show an error if you've made a typo we're not seeing.

If sourcing it makes it appear then .bash_profile's not being sourced when you log in. Maybe it's sourcing something else like .bash_rc or just the default profile rather than your personal one.

5: Re: echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH returns nada ... (response to 1)

Posted by Jade Rubick on 02/15/03 07:21 PM

Hi Ola,

First of all, I'd check to make sure you're using bash. You might have another shell by default.

Also, I think you should add in

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/pgsql73/lib

at the end instead of what you have currently.

6: Re: echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH returns nada ... (response to 1)

Posted by Ola Hansson on 02/15/03 08:51 PM

It looks like .bash_profile in my home dir do get sourced, but that it only gets read until it comes to the last "export PATH" statement.

ola@debian:~$ env | grep SHELL
SHELL=/bin/bash
ola@debian:~$ which bash
/bin/bash
ola@debian:~$


ola@debian:~$ env | grep PATH
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/ora8/m01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/bin:/usr/local/pgsql73/bin
ola@debian:~$
ola@debian:~$ source .bash_profile
ola@debian:~$
ola@debian:~$ env | grep PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/ora8/m01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/pgsql73/lib
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/ora8/m01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/bin:/usr/local/pgsql73/bin:/ora8/m01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/bin:/usr/local/pgsql73/bin
ola@debian:~$
ola@debian:~$

I tried and commented everything out and then log out/in. The PATH would then look like this: "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games" ... i.e., without the pgsql bit.

Note that, when it's been sourced, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set and PATH has the "/usr/local/pgsql73" part twice. It does not seem to stop in the middle there ...

Jade, I left it the way you suggest, but like I said to Aldert, it did not make any difference. As you can see, I run bash. Now, bash should work with this syntax, no?

Thanks for the support.

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