Hello, * John Calcote wrote on Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 08:02:37AM CEST: > On 7/22/2009 9:15 PM, A117 wrote: > >Thank you. I've decided to put the library in /usr/local/lib, while its > >header files in /usr/local/include/ezproject. > >It's strange though /usr/local/lib is in /etc/ld.so.conf (actually in > >another file it includes), and I can build other programs acting much as > >mine, I have difficulty with mine only. I run ldconfig manually and then it > >works. Now I'm releasing my software. > > ldconfig updates the library cache. the /etc/ld.so.conf file is the > file used by ldconfig to determine which directories to scan for > libraries. When you add a new library to one of the directories in > /etc/ld.so.conf, then you need to run ldconfig to ensure that the > cache is aware of that new library.
FWIW, 'libtool --mode=install' should be running 'ldconfig -n' if you don't happen to use DESTDIR; otherwise, there is --finish. Cheers, Ralf
