DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and iPhoto
I was playing with Mac::Glue tonight, working on getting it ready for release, and I tried to create a glue for iPhoto.
It turns out that this path is used before dyld looks at the program's paths. I don't want that. I changed my .bash_profile to use DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH instead, and it works fine now. 
gluemaciPhoto was not happy with this, and quit on me. The crash log said something about bad symbols in dyld. I eventually traced this to DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, which I have set for OpenOffice.org and some other things; not in the GUI, only in the shell, so iPhoto starts fine from clicking on its icon, but not from opening from the command line etc./Applications/iPhoto.app
It turns out that this path is used before dyld looks at the program's paths. I don't want that. I changed my
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