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SubjectRe: [OFFTOPIC]: MS Porting Office to Linux?
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> > It's either this or they have to static link! This would turn it into
> > real big bloat-ware, it is very large. 5.0's installation program
> > is more complete, but you still have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH and,
> > if you want their library cached, fix up /etc/ld.so.config.
>
> There is really no difference between the two choices, though!
>

Yep.

> And from what you're writing, I would say that failing to provide a
> wrapper script to set up LD_LIBRARY_PATH is unacceptable (but
> unfortunately far too typical for most commercial Unix packages; it
> seems I always end up writing wrapper scripts to invoke them
> correctly.)

Agreed.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
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Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.


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