I agree that it'd be good for ldconfig to be done automatically.
I ran into the same problem about half a year ago when I ran into the MH, mail
handling program and they wouldn't work with emacs. I can imagine future users
running into the same problem.
Darel
Ken Olum <k...@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu> wrote:
> From: Sergey Poznyakoff <g...@gnu.org.ua>
> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 10:15:14 +0200
>
> That's system-dependent, so I don't think it should.
>
> Isn't this the kind of thing that is handled by "configure"? In fact
> there's a lot of discussion of ldconfig in configure, but I don't know
> how it works.
>
> The problem the way things are now is that there's an extra step to
> getting the installed software working, and no way to know that you have
> to take it. Like most packages you just use the generic INSTALL
> instructions, which don't mention this extra step. I haven't had to do
> it before, so I think most packages are handling this for the user.
>
> Ken
>
