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29-30 Oct 2001

Trying to eliminate the need for LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting with
Eclipse library.

Approaches tried:


Changing LD_LIBRARY_PATH from within the process before loading
eclipse library.

	Problem: the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable is only looked at once,
	when the process starts up. Subsequent changes do not affect
	library loading in that process.


Explicitly pre-loading the dependencies using dlopen().

	Problem:  I have not found a portable way to make that work on
	different architectures.  It works on Solaris 5.7.  On Linux,
	no variant of loading the dependencies explicitly prevented
	the system from trying to load them again when needed as
	dependecies.  This is presumably because it first tries to
	find the library's file name and then checks if it is already
	loaded.  But if the library is not in a library path, the file
	name can of course not be found.


Forcing implicit pre-loading using a (relative) run-path and changing
directories.

	Problem: Again, this does not work on Linux. The run-path
	is not taken into account by dlopen().


Having a run-path of . for tkeclipse, libeclipse and chdir before
loading.

	Works on Solaris and Linux. Works with Tcl.
	Does not work with Java.