Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not.

1999-11-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 12:24:53PM -0800, Duane H. Hesser wrote: > A few still have 'local' hardwired in, but after many years of ... > The X11 situation is not quite as rosy; there have been quite a > few which needed hand patching. The problem seems to be a lot of > Imakefiles with BINDIR, INC

Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not.

1999-11-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 05:34:23PM -0800, Mike Meyer wrote: > Except, of course, that /usr/local/lib *does* get special treatment! > It's listed in ldconfig_paths (and the aout subdir > ldconfig_paths_aout), along with /usr/X11R6/lib & > /usr/lib/compat. None of those are part of the OS, though al

Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not.

1999-11-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 03:14:04PM -0800, Mike Meyer wrote: > ;->It belongs in /usr/local. > > I don't agree. Things being maintainted and supported locally belong > in /usr/local. Ports and packages come on the distribution, and you go > back to the same channels for support as you do for core p

Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not.

1999-11-12 Thread Duane H. Hesser
Mike and Paul I agree with both of you (at least conceptually), regarding installation locations of software (the topic here has wandered a bit from the original Subject: line). I think your positions are not so far apart, differing only in detail. It is certainly (in my view) useful to keep op

Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not.

1999-11-12 Thread mleczo
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, mleczo wrote: > Helo > Im new to all of this > But got one question > I cant compile eggdrop on my FreeBSD 2.2.8 > When it comes to linking i got an error > ld: -ltcl no match > > Wheres the problem > PLease help me solve this > > bye > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send ma

Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not.

1999-11-12 Thread Mike Meyer
John Baldwin writes: ;->> The bottom line is that taking the name people have standardized on ;->> for installing *local* packages and installing system-provided ;->> packages there is a bad thing(TM). None of the solutions I used ;->> suffered from that flaw. ;->Umm, if the name /usr/local distur

Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not.

1999-11-12 Thread Christopher Shumway
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, mleczo wrote: > Helo > Im new to all of this > But got one question > I cant compile eggdrop on my FreeBSD 2.2.8 > When it comes to linking i got an error > ld: -ltcl no match > > Wheres the problem > PLease help me solve this This would have been better suited for -questio

Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not.

1999-11-12 Thread John Baldwin
On 11-Nov-99 Mike Meyer wrote: > John Baldwin writes: > ;->On 11-Nov-99 Mike Meyer wrote: > ;->> I still curse at regular intervals at the ports/packages > collection > ;->> installing things in /usr/local. That means I need another place > for > ;->> things that I maintain, instead of came with

Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not.

1999-11-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Scott Benjamin wrote: > > I've installed some libs on my machine (3.3-STABLE 11-09-1999) in > /usr/local/lib, via ports and some tarballs. I have let ldconfig_path in > rc.conf. When I do a ldconfig -r -v -elf | grep libname, it finds the > correct library. but when I try

Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not.

1999-11-10 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Scott Benjamin wrote: > > I've installed some libs on my machine (3.3-STABLE 11-09-1999) in > /usr/local/lib, via ports and some tarballs. I have let ldconfig_path in > rc.conf. When I do a ldconfig -r -v -elf | grep libname, it finds the > correct library. but when I try