difference between LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH

Hi Naveen,

I'm sure Google could have helped answer this, but here goes: PATH is the Unix search path for finding executables (and scripts), whereas the LD_LIBRARY_PATH is the search path for finding shared objects and dynamically linked libraries - some binaries do not have all of the code compiled into them, but instead they reference common library functions that are used by many different executables, they are shared.  Such binaries have "links" to the library functions or shared objects, but on each machine the libraries could be located in different places, so the LD_LIBRARY_PATH is used to specify where to find them.

Hopefully what I've said here is correct, and hopefully it answers your question.

Regards,

Lawrence.

Thanks Lawrence!!

I probably should have asked like this, what is the difference between files from "<>/tools/bin/" to "<>/tools/lib/" ?

:)

 Regards,

Naveen

Hi Naveen,

The "bin" directory contains the binaries, or scripts, or links to such items, and the "lib" directory contains the shared object files that are common to various Cadence binaries (these are Cadence library functions/code, if you like, like the previous description of shared object and library files in the earlier note [perhaps some of these are not defined by Cadence, but shipped with the tools to ensure that they are present?] ).

If you look at a specific file, you could use the "file" Unix/Linux command to 'test' what type of file it is, for example:

 file `cds_root cds_root`/tools/lib/libCdsXmotif.so.2.1
-> <path>/tools/lib/libCdsXmotif.so.2.1: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped

 The file command shows that the libCdsXmotif.so.2.1 file is a shared object file.

Does this answer the question?

Regards,

Lawrence.

Yes. It did answer my question.

Thank you.

Regards,

Naveen