Thanks.
Glade still fails to start when not setting PYTHONHOME:
#!/bin/bash
pushd ${HOME}/CAD/glade/_work
export mach_type=`uname -m`
export GLADE_HOME="${HOME}/openSUSE/tarballs/glade4_linux64_rh4"
export PATH=${GLADE_HOME}/bin:${PATH}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${GLADE_HOME}/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:${GLADE_HOME}/bin
#export PYTHONHOME=/usr
#strace glade >& glade.strace
glade
popd
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site.py", line 519, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site.py", line 502, in main
known_paths = addsitepackages(known_paths)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site.py", line 268, in addsitepackages
sitedirs.append(os.path.join(prefix, sys.lib,
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'lib'