[Qt-interest] LGPL and static linking

[Harri Porten]

On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, william.crocker at analog.com wrote:

> My application runs as root and so use of LD_LIBRARY_PATH (etc) is not
> permitted

Is this a setuid root application? Otherwise I'm only aware of tools like 
sudo stripping the variable's values.

> and I do not want to have to worry about how every computer among the
> thousands on which it runs within my enterprise finds the Qt libs.

In our product we wrap the real applications in light-weight starter 
applications that set LD_LIBRARY_PATH (Unix) and PATH (Windows) to point 
it to our own library copies and never had a problem. The code is no big 
magic as using shell script wrappers is common practise. But maybe I 
should post the code anyway.

Harri.