On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 03:56:17PM +0200, Rohan Nicholls wrote: > But then there are the libraries. If I am running a program from the > local section of usr will it know to look in /usr/lib/ for shared > libraries or will it only look relative to it (../lib/)?
See the ld.so(8) man page. The linker looks in /etc/ld.so.cache (which is built from the directories listed in /etc/ld.so.conf by ldconfig), then /usr/lib, then /lib. > I am thrilled to be using debian, but am finding that it is difficult > to track where things are supposed to go, and where they are kept so I > can direct an application if it complains. The place to start is the debian-policy package, which also contains a copy of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
