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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: How can I debug part of kdebase?
From:       Kuba Ober <winnie () hoth ! amu ! edu ! pl>
Date:       2001-01-11 17:04:12
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On Thursday 11 January 2001 11:38 am, Leon Widdershoven wrote:

> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=path_to_my_new_lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> kwrite &

With export being the keyword ;-). I always make the same mistake. At the 
time of my last post I did check that and ldd still didn't report the new lib 
being used because I forgot that... aargh. Yes, this works for me and I hope 
it will help you too, Brian.

Kuba

> > > > I am trying to modify kwrite, but I am having some problem.  Well my
> > > > changes are crashing the program so I would like to run it through
> > > > gdb to find the problem, though the file kwrite is a shell script to
> > > > run ..libs/kwrite, but if I run .libs/kwrite, it runs the kwrite that
> > > > is installed in the system, and not the modified version.  What is up
> > > > here?  What am I missing?
> > >
> > > Well, just run your program with explicit path, like
> > > ... /home/panic/kwrite/src/kwrite
> > > Or am I missing something?
> >
> > Uh-oh commenting on myself ;-). Now I get it I think;-). Kwrite's
> > functionality - especially the kwritepart - must be in a library
> > somewhere.
> >
> > So when you call kwrite, it uses whatever installed library there is and
> > ignores your local (newly compiled) stuff. According to libtool docs
> > info:/libtool/Linking executables
> > there's a wrapper script which makes sure that right libraries get
> > called.
> >
> > Well, in that case, if you build your executable and its libraries, make
> > sure that you put a different prefix for configure, like configure
> > --prefix=~/test rather than default /usr or whatever. This should make
> > your executable use all local libraries.
 
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