PATH var and more...

[Miguel Cardenas]

Hello list

Just reinstalled my freebsd, am advancing with installation of programs and 
configuration, but still have some details I can't fix...

I've installed MySQL 4.0.20 successfully from source code and programs work 
fine, but have still two little "problems"...

1. Can't add /usr/local/mysql/bin to the PATH var from the main 
configuration... Tried to add:
   export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin
to /etc/profile, but didn't work. It only works if I send the command through 
the bash shell or in $HOME/.profile but /etc/profile does not work... why? 
don't want to append it to the .profile of each user!!!

2. MySQL is working fine now, but now that am creating/porting a client 
application, once compiled it does not find libmysqlclient.so... tried to 
append the path to /etc/ld.so.conf and ld-elf.so.conf and run ldconfig, but 
still not found by system when invoking a program that uses it... how can I 
add /usr/local/mysql/lib to the libraries path?

Thanks a lot !!!