On Thursday August 02 2001 11:24, Michael Schuerig wrote: > I'm somewhat confused by all the places where shared libs (can) go. The > KDE debs put some (all? or only "modules"?) shared libs in > /usr/lib/kde2. KDE tarballs and projects created with KDevelop to put > them in /usr/local/lib/kde2. > > My /etc/ld.so.conf contains neither /usr/lib/kde2 nor > /usr/local/lib/kde2, but the libs in the former directory are found > nevertheless. Libs in the later directory aren't found, even after I > added it to /etc/ld.so.conf (and ran ldconfig). > > I'm somewhat confused, I must admit. Apparently, my understanding of > dynamic linking, among other things, is lacking. :-( > > Michael
Well, yes, it is confusing. I'd like to point you to man ldconfig Hopefully, that will resolve matters a bit as far as /etc/ld.so.conf goes. As far as I can tell, debian doesn't use /usr/local/lib very much. One of things that might help in explaining matters is checking on the file permissions. For e.g., 01:13pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home 678 $ ls -ld /usr/lib/ drwxr-xr-x 84 root root 36864 Jul 30 14:27 /usr/lib/ 01:14pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home 679 $ ls -ld /usr/local/lib/ drwxrwsr-x 6 root staff 4096 Jun 13 14:07 /usr/local/lib/ HTH, Andy
