On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 03:18:05PM +0100, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > > > 5. *** THE BIG PAIN *** I'm not sure if anyone knows why this happened: It > > might be FC3 specific. The problem was something in the system (I still > > don't know what) makes a symlink from /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane.so.1 -> > > libsane-v4l.so.1.0.16. That's totally bogus. If I rm the symlink it just > > IIRC this is caused by the libtool --finish call in backend/Makefile. > In CVS there is a workaround that removes these links. At least it > should...
I was using the latest CVS from Dec 17 and it still did it. > "/usr/local/lib/sane" should NEVER be listed in /etc/ld.so.conf. This > has been obsolete for five (?) years now. Don't do that. If your > distribution does that, tell the maintainers to stop it immediately. My system was FC1 upgraded to 2 upgraded to 3 (actually, I may have started with RH9!)... the entry must have been around from way back when. I have deleted the line. At least now this change is documented in something that may show up in a google search. Thanks.
