On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:39:18PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 03:36:38AM +0800, xinglp wrote: > > May be this reason, I lost "ldconfig" in Xorg Libraries. > > I'll try it tomorrow, and feed back > > I think you mean that you did not run ldconfig after each library > was installed ? If so, any error would happen when ld failed to > find the library, and you would get a build failure. So, I doubt > this is the problem (although it is, theoretically, possible that > xorg-server could fail to link). > > Either way, running ldconfig when you encounter a failure to link > will pick up all the now-existing libraries it did not know about. > > Certainly, we used to have to run ldconfig for many (or all) of the > libraries when monolithic xorg (6.8 ?) was first broken into the > modular version, and I still do that. > > So, I need to remove the 'ldconfig' steps on my next build (I'm now > on 7.7-rc, so *if* they are no longer necessary for me, they might > still be needed in 7.6) and test this. Thanks for rousing my > interest, I'm *so* glad I said I had no plans to upgrade anything > else on BLFS at the moment ;-) > It would have been better if I checked what I actually do, instead of relying on my memory :) The only place in my scripts to build Xorg where I run ldconfig is for llvm.
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