Some libraries are not found without LD_LIBRARY_PATH mangling

[Matt Rogers]

On Tuesday 06 November 2007 03:42:06 Andras Mantia wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 October 2007, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > Discussion moved from kde-core-devel. Link to thread:
> > http://lists.kde.org/?t=119343241900001&r=1&w=2
>
> So let's get back here: was anything done regarding this issue, namely
> have a way that KDE (including kdesupport) can be built and used
> without setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH or /etc/ld.so.conf, just like KDE3? If
> you build KDE and install it in a non-standard path (eg. as an user),
> you will run into this problem. .
>

Nothing's been done AFAICT. 

btw, I install KDE as a user and I don't run into this problem. My 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH is empty and my ld.so.conf doesn't contain the place 
where I installed KDE to, so not everyone is affected.
--
Matt