ending LD_LIBRARY_PATH woes

As I have the habit of installing most of the hand built tools into /usr/local, I quite frequently run into troubles when secific apps require additions to the library path.

The rationale being that /usr/local seems to be somewhat of a default, and with various software repositories for solaris such as blastwave, sunfreeware etc have a tendency to install somewhere in /opt, This keeps at least some sanity to my filesystems.

As any lazy bastard, I normally would fix this by temporarily setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the correct path and fire up the application.

Solaris and opensolaris have had a clean alternative to that a long time: via crle...

Here's how to add /usr/local/lib to it:

# crle

Default configuration file (/var/ld/ld.config) not found
Platform: 32-bit LSB 80386
Default Library Path (ELF): /lib:/usr/lib (system default)
Trusted Directories (ELF): /lib/secure:/usr/lib/secure (system default)
# crle -u -l /usr/local/lib
# crle

Configuration file [version 4]: /var/ld/ld.config
Platform: 32-bit LSB 80386
Default Library Path (ELF): /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib
Trusted Directories (ELF): /lib/secure:/usr/lib/secure (system default)

Command line:
crle -c /var/ld/ld.config -l /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib

#

Note: when the config file exists, the single "-l" will overwrite the previous entries, however in the "special" case of a nonexistent /var/ld/ld.config, it will add the directory after the -l path.