Yo Hal! On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 18:14:24 -0800 Hal Murray via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:
> Gary said:
> > I'm not on Debian. I'm on Gentoo. Not the same.
>
> Are you using LD_LIBRARY_PATH.?
Nope. Gentoo defaults include /usr/local/lib*. So no need to
add them to LD_LIBARAY_PATH.
> > We should only be programming to the POSIX man pages. So we get
> > some portability.
>
> We have to do something when POSIX doesn't cover a topic.
I think you have that backwards. We should do what POSIX wants, as
that has a chance to work almost everywhere. Trying to understand
all the ways that distros do it is a lot of work.
> The man page for Gentoo look very similar to the one from Fedora or
> Debian. FreeBSD and NetBSD are different.
Yup. Mostly what differs from Fedora to gentoo is the defaults.
Much easier to jsut do it once, the POSIX way.
> > The next, and important, question, is whether runtime now works for
> > you?
>
> Yes, after I add /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ntpd.conf containing
> /usr/local/lib64/
I think LD_LIBRARY_PATH is the POSIX way to do it.
> I think we should install such a file containing LIBDIR
> on systems where /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ is a directory.
Gonna be a lot of corner casaes with $PREFIX, $DESTDIR, etc.
> I don't think it will break anything and it will fix the new Fedora
> case.
Luckily a problem I do not have. I just can't install...
RGDS
GARY
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