[gentoo-user] Re: glibc emerge error

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>]

On 12/01/18 18:31, Corbin Bird wrote:
> On 01/11/2018 08:29 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 11/01/18 15:28, Corbin Bird wrote:
>>>> Why are you setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH system-wide to begin with? Don't
>>>> do that.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, I had to ( and didn't realize the implications. )
>>> In .bashrc :
>>>> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$VULKAN_SDK/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>>>
>>> Required by the Vulkan Loader ( Mesa && Chromium ).
>>
>> I think this is what the /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ directory is there for.
>> Have you tried something like this instead:
>>
>>    echo "$VULKAN_SDK/lib" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/vulkan-loader.conf
>>    env-update
>>
> 
> Will try this method and see what happens.
> 
> Checked a file already there. In the "05gcc-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.conf"
> there were no $PATH variables.
> Put explicit paths in instead.
> 
> This will be interesting.

Yes, you do add explicit paths in it. This:

   echo "$VULKAN_SDK/lib" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/vulkan-loader.conf

will write an explicit path (the variable is expanded by the shell.)