On 1/16/06, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was wrong in retracting, my LFS-svn results definitely show this for > all builds after the first. I can't yet see why the symlink is moving > (and I've spent twenty minutes looking at readline's shlib/Makefile and > support/shlib-install).
Looks like an ldconfig issue: I tried the installation with --prefix=/tmp/readline. Here are the results. $ ls -l /tmp/readline/lib/ -rw-r--r-- 1 readline readline 91246 Jan 18 00:10 libhistory.a -rw-r--r-- 1 readline readline 91246 Jan 18 00:10 libhistory.old lrwxrwxrwx 1 readline readline 15 Jan 18 00:10 libhistory.so -> libhistory.so.5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 readline readline 17 Jan 18 00:10 libhistory.so.5 -> libhistory.so.5.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 readline readline 71340 Jan 18 00:10 libhistory.so.5.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 readline readline 71340 Jan 18 00:10 libhistory.so.5.1.old -rw-r--r-- 1 readline readline 618068 Jan 18 00:10 libreadline.a -rw-r--r-- 1 readline readline 618068 Jan 18 00:10 libreadline.old lrwxrwxrwx 1 readline readline 16 Jan 18 00:10 libreadline.so -> libreadline.so.5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 readline readline 18 Jan 18 00:10 libreadline.so.5 -> libreadline.so.5.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 readline readline 446391 Jan 18 00:10 libreadline.so.5.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 readline readline 446391 Jan 18 00:10 libreadline.so.5.1.old $ ldconfig -n /tmp/readline/lib/ $ ls -l /tmp/readline/lib/ -rw-r--r-- 1 readline readline 91246 Jan 18 00:10 libhistory.a -rw-r--r-- 1 readline readline 91246 Jan 18 00:10 libhistory.old lrwxrwxrwx 1 readline readline 15 Jan 18 00:10 libhistory.so -> libhistory.so.5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 readline readline 21 Jan 18 00:11 libhistory.so.5 -> libhistory.so.5.1.old -rw-r--r-- 1 readline readline 71340 Jan 18 00:10 libhistory.so.5.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 readline readline 71340 Jan 18 00:10 libhistory.so.5.1.old -rw-r--r-- 1 readline readline 618068 Jan 18 00:10 libreadline.a -rw-r--r-- 1 readline readline 618068 Jan 18 00:10 libreadline.old lrwxrwxrwx 1 readline readline 16 Jan 18 00:10 libreadline.so -> libreadline.so.5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 readline readline 22 Jan 18 00:11 libreadline.so.5 -> libreadline.so.5.1.old -rw-r--r-- 1 readline readline 446391 Jan 18 00:10 libreadline.so.5.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 readline readline 446391 Jan 18 00:10 libreadline.so.5.1.old Notice the change. Time for someone to submit a bug report to the glibc folks. IMO, the book should recommend that folks not run plain old ldconfig but use ldconfig -X so that links are not modified. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page