Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:34:11 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC]: MS Porting Office to Linux? |
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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.
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